Even at the end of the decade, just before Off the Wall launched his solo career, gentle, soft-spoken Michael worked hard to appear wholesome. Liquor? Drugs? "People are always shovin' it at you, but it's not beautiful, it's sloppy," he said. "If people want to escape they should walk the beach or be around children."
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.
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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
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
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.
Michael Jackson
Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
Michael Jackson
But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
Michael Jackson
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.
Michael Jackson
Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.
Michael Jackson
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.
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 have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?
Michael Jackson
I just wish I could understand my father.
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 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
I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
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
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.
Michael Jackson
I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
Michael Jackson
I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
Michael Jackson
I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
Michael Jackson