Janet Jackson Says She Hates Saying, ‘Please Stop Asking Me Questions’

Janet Jackson is a lover of silence.

The pop icon confessed that she doesn’t like giving interviews or speaking in any respect during napsuperiority on the radio show “Heart Evenings with Dev Griffin” on Wednesday, July 17. Jackson blurted out that she preferred to maintain quiet when Griffin asked her what query she preferred not to reply during interviews with reporters.

“I don’t want to be rude, but I have to be honest with you. Please stop asking me questions,” Jackson said with a smile. “I’ve never thought I was good at giving interviews. I really don’t like talking, so I prefer to sit quietly and listen to other people talk, and I always have.”

Jackson continued jokingly, “Don’t ask me any questions. Are we done?”

Griffin responded positively to Jackson’s confession, laughing and saying, “If it means anything, Janet, this is one of my favorite interviews I’ve ever done in my entire life,” to which Jackson replied, “That’s very nice.”

The “All For You” singer, who’s currently on her “Together Again” tour, also opened up about artists she admired through the conversation. Jackson explained that she would need to “exclude family because obviously that spoke to me first, seeing my brothers, my sisters, my cousin Stevie (Wonder) — watching him perform was a huge inspiration.”

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She then named Prince and Earth, Wind & Fire as two bands she loved, explaining that her brothers used to take her to concert events when she was younger.

“My brothers would often take me with them when they went to concerts, and I remember seeing Earth, Wind & Fire as a kid — just unforgettable,” Jackson said. “I’ll never forget it. It really blew me away, the musicianship and then the whole body of work. I absolutely loved it.”

“And then I remember seeing Prince when I was in my early, early, early, early 20s,” she added. “He sang a couple of songs that I wasn’t that familiar with and didn’t play the songs that I was familiar with, and I thought, ‘If I ever perform at that level, I don’t want to do that. I want to at least play the songs that people know, for sure.’”