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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Our parents are always an important part of our inner life.

But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

Coming up with a funny joke is like falling in love: It can hit you any time, anywhere. Having said that, the more you put yourself out there, the better your odds will be.

If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.

The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.