Michael Jackson
Singer
1958-08-29
Quotes by Michael Jackson
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Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
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Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.
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Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.
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I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.
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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.
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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.
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I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
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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.
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I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
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The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
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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.
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My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
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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.
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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.
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