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.
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.
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.
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.
Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.
Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.
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.
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.
I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?
I just wish I could understand my father.
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.
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.
I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
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.
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'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
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.
I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.
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.
It was wonderful, there's a lot of wonderment in being famous. I mean you travel the world, you meet people, you go places, it's great. But then there's the other side, which I'm not complaining about. There is lots of rehearsal and you have to put in a lot of your time, give a lot of yourself.
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.
Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
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.
Me and Janet really are two different people.
My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
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.
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.
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.
Well, on stage for me was home. I was most comfortable on stage but once I got off stage, I was like, very sad.
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.
When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You try be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics, just you go form the soul and from the heart.
Michael and his brother Tito, were co-best men at the Liza Minelli-David Guest wedding.
Michael has taken on a new manager in 2006, English music mogul Guy Holmes.
Michael is being sued by ex wife Debra Rowe, for stopping her $900,000 a year payments, stating that she breeched the agreement to keep silent on his private life. Debra has accused Michael in public, of taking on another prescription pain pill habit, even providing the name of the doctor that fills them. She has stated that she is concerned for her children's well being under his care, and has fought to gain her parental rights back.
Michael has shut down the house on his Neverland Ranch, and dismissed most of the employees on the California estate. He has not closed the ranch in its entirity, but because he now resides in the middle east, he has closed the house, which reduces the need for a full staff. He is also placing his animals on sale as well.
Michael is the main character in the early 90's game, "Moonwalker".
Michael was featured in clay form in Genesis' music video, "Land of Confusion".
Michael joined the long list of celebrities lampooned by South Park. It happened in South Park episode 117 entitled "The Jeffersons".
Michael has sold over 170 million albums worldwide.
Michael was inducted into the 'Rock and Roll Hall' of Fame as a solo artist in 2001.
Michael has a skin disease called “vitiligo”.
Michael had a chimp named 'Bubbles'.
Michael was one of the performers and co-writers with Lionel Richie for the world famous song “We are the World”.
Michael holds the record for the most Grammy’s won in one year which was eight.
Michael has a daughter named Paris Michael Katherine Jackson who was born in April of 1998.
Michael is known for wearing black shoes with white socks, and a white seqiuned glove, the trademark arm-band that he wears is a symbol of the suffering of children around the world.
Michael was married to Lisa Marie Presley. They married in 1994 and divorced in 1996.
Michael gets credited for his work under several different names. They are: Jackson 5, The Jackson 5, The Jackson Five, The Jackson’s and John Jay Smith.
Michael starred in the movie "The WIz" via Diana Ross in 1978 as the Scarecrow.
Michael won an MTV Movie Award for 'Best Movie Song' in 1994 for Free Willy.
History is the biggest selling double album ever by Michael.
Michael hair caught fire during a Pepsi commercial filming in 1984.
Michael does NOT own the rights to the entire Beatles catalogue. For example, George Harrison owns songs he wrote including "Something", and Sony music owns 50% of the catalogue after Michael sold it to them because he needed the money.
Height: 5'10"
Michael was voted the 14th greatest pop culture icon of all time in a UK poll.
Michael is a composer, Actor, Producer, Director and Writer.
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