I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.

I have an inate curiosity about people.

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more.

Stories are one of the most powerful ways in which we communicate ideas among ourselves. They are the stuff that brings us together, the things we celebrate, the things we share with one another.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

When in doubt, throw it out.

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

The role of a leader is to serve his people. We absolutely must first serve the people who we want to lead. They must be able to rely on the leader as much as we hope to rely on them.

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.

England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath