Quotes by Michael Jackson

"Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do."

"Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists."

"Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday."

"I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids."

"Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice."

"I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily."

"Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends."

"You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town."

"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 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?"

"But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to."

"I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am."

"I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am."

"Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved."

"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with."

"My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection."

"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."

"It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie."

"Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep."

"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."