Michael Jackson Quotes

Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

I believe in God.....I gain strength from God. I believe in Jehovah, God, very much.....I believe in God and love God.

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.

I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you're automatically different.

I always had this yearning to give and help and make people feel better.

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.

I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something.

I just don't like being on a lot of different things or being everywhere because I get kind of embarrassed.

When people leave my show, I want them to say, 'I've never seen anything like that in my life ... It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.'

Find your star and throw it up to heaven. You still have it, don't you?

When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it's so bad.

There's bits of my heart in different countries around the world in which I travel.

There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.

I care about being paid fairly for what I do. When I approach a project, I put my whole heart and soul into it. Because I really care about it.

I don't like pop music.

I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.

I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That's fun to me.

I used to say I and Me Now it's Us, now it's We

A lot of people think that I'm a Michael Jackson impersonator.

If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.

My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident.

Ain't no mountain that I can't climb, baby

We are the world, we are the children.

What can I do but bring forth the talent that God gave me? That's all I wanted to do. To share the love and gift of entertainment. That's all I want to do. I don't want to hurt anybody.

ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.

Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.

My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.

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.

Never ask for 'a beer.'

Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].

So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.

I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world.

Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.

Jason Randal is without a doubt the finest in the world at what he does!

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

I'm starting with the man in the mirror

I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.

I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother, it don't matter if you're black or white.

[about tabloid magazines] Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen doesn't make it factual. To buy it is to feed it.

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?

I must endure...for the world for the children.

Nothing's real ,but all is possible if God is on my side

Mama always told me, be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls hearts.

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

We must wave our banners even higher and belt out our voices even stronger and be unified as people. We're going to make it through this!

I think God outdid Himself when He created children.

I say, ‘You should blanket me’ or ‘you should blanket her’, meaning like a blanket is a blessing. It’s a way of showing love and caring.

The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.