Quotes By Michael Jackson

I trusted Martin Bashir to come into my life and that of my family because I wanted the truth to be told.

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

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

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'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.

Me and Janet really are two different people.

I love Elizabeth Taylor. I'm inspired by her bravery. She has been through so much and she is a survivor. That lady has been through a lot and she's walked out of it on two feet. I identify with her very strongly because of our experiences as child stars. When we first started talking on the phone, she told me she felt as if she had known me for years. I felt the same way.

I always enjoyed the feeling of being onstage - the magic that comes. When I hit the stage it's like all of a sudden a magic from somewhere just comes and the spirit just hits you and you just lose control of yourself.

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

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.

My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you've got to get out and see God's beauty of the world.

I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper'. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

I am scared of my father to this day. My father walked in the room - and God knows I am telling the truth - I have fainted in his presence many times. I have fainted once to be honest. I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting and I know I am in trouble.

Yeah, "Wacko Jacko". Where'd 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.