Michael Jackson quotes

“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.”

— Michael Jackson

“I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

“My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.”

— Michael Jackson

“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.”

— Michael Jackson

“I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.”

— Michael Jackson

“When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.”

— Michael Jackson

“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.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

“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.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

“I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

“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.”

— Michael Jackson

“Me and Janet really are two different people.”

— Michael Jackson

“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.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

“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.”

— Michael Jackson

“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.”

— Michael Jackson

“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.”

— Michael Jackson

“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

“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.”

— Michael Jackson

“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?”

— Michael Jackson