Quotes By Michael Jackson

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 was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Me and Janet really are two different people.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way, leave room for God to walk in the room, and when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say, 'Thank You.

I'm trying to imitate Jesus in the fact that He said to be like children, to love children, to be as pure as children, and to make yourself as innocent, and to see the world through eyes of wonderment, and the whole magical quality of it all.