Quotes of Michael Jackson

August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009

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.



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.



Because I wanted to have a place

that I could create everything 

that I never had as a child. 

So, you see rides. You see animals.

There’s a movie theater.



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.



Before I would hurt a child,

I would slit my wrists.



But I will never stop helping

and loving people

the way Jesus said to.



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.



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.



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 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.



I remember 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.



I was a veteran,

before I was a teenager.



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.



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 happy to be alive,

I’m happy to be who I am.

I’m just like anyone.

I cut and I bleed.

And I embarass easily.



I’m never pleased with anything,

I’m a perfectionist,

it’s part of who I am.



Michael Jackson