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Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.
Michael Jackson
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I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.
Michael Jackson
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I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.
Michael Jackson
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Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.
Michael Jackson
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You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.
Michael Jackson
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It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much.
Michael Jackson
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If I am guilty of anything it is of believing what God said about children: 'Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.' In no way do I think that I am God, but I try to be God-like in my heart.
Michael Jackson
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My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.
Michael Jackson
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Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.
Michael Jackson
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But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.
Michael Jackson
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There is an inherent dissonance between the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.
Michael Jackson
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I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me.
Michael Jackson
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Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.
Michael Jackson
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Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.
Michael Jackson
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Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.
Michael Jackson
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Yeah, "Wacko Jacko". Where'd 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.
Michael Jackson
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A lot of people misunderstand me. That's because they don't know me at all.
Michael Jackson
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When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true...
Michael Jackson
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A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.
Michael Jackson
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To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it’ll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it’ll be in the world forever.
Michael Jackson
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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.
Michael Jackson
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I just want to bring the world together. Togetherness is what I want for this planet.
Michael Jackson
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You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one.
Michael Jackson
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No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.
Michael Jackson
