Quotes by Michael Jackson

"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."

"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."

"I just wish I could understand my father."

"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."

"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation."

"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."

"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."

"The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music."

"When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell."

"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."

"The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation."

"I rememeber 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."

"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."

"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?"

"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work."

"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."

"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."

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