Michael Jackson

1958 – 2009
Singer, Dancer, Composer.

My mother’s wonderful.
To me she’s perfection.

Everything that I love is behind those gates.
We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And – and we have bus loads of kids, who don’t get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today,
I’m crazy about her.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we’re a show business family and we all work.

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Just because it’s in print
doesn’t mean it’s the gospel.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it’s something that I cannot help, OK?

Well, especially now I come to realize – and then – I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I’d record for hours and hours until it’s time to go to sleep.

Well Brooke, I’ve always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I – I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from?
Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings.
I feel that when you do that to me. It’s not nice.

The greatest education in the world
is watching the masters at work.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

Me and Janet really are two different people.

Well, you don’t get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn’t have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

I’ve helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I – I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

I’m a black American, I am proud of my race.
I am proud of who I am.
I have a lot of pride and dignity.

I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that’s what sells. Good news to them, doesn’t sell.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn’t him. This is not him.

Why can’t you share your bed?
The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.
It’s very charming. It’s very sweet.
It’s what the whole world should do.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

I just wish I could understand my father.

Well, especially now I come to realize – and then – I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I’d record for hours and hours until it’s time to go to sleep.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child.
So, you see rides.
You see animals.
There’s a movie theater.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I’d see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that’s what sells. Good news to them, doesn’t sell.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

I was a veteran,
before I was a teenager.

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you’re not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.

I’m never pleased with anything,
I’m a perfectionist, it’s part of who I am.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And – and we have bus loads of kids, who don’t get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

I don’t understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

It’s a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It’s not the truth I’m here to say. You know, don’t judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don’t care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to be who I am.

I’m never pleased with anything, I’m a perfectionist, it’s part of who I am.

It’s a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It’s not the truth I’m here to say. You know, don’t judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don’t care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to be who I am.

You know, let’s put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn’t be a person left in town.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.