Quotes By Michael Jackson

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.

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

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.

Me and Janet really are two different people.

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.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

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.

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

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

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 just wish I could understand my father.

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

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

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.

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