Here are some things that Michael has said:

"The glove was just-I thought one was cooler than two. I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is-you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks."

"It's sad to get caught up in the past. That's why I don't put awards in my house. No gold records, no Grammys. They're in storage. I don't like to be puffed up with pride, 'cause I'd feel like I don't have any more things to reach for. And that's not true."

"'Cause [the press] has made me out to be this monster, this crazy person who's bizarre and weird. I'm nothing like that."

"All of Hollywood has plastic surgery!"

"Everything I create is inspired by that kind of innocence."

"Being mobbed hurts! You feel like you're spaghetti among thousands of hands. They're just ripping you and pulling your hair. And you feel that any moment you're gonna just break!"

"I've been performning for so long, I sometimes feel like I should be 70 by now."

"The peacock is the only bird that integrates all the colors into one. It can only produce this radiance of fire when it is in love. And that is what we're trying to represent through our music. To bring all races together through love." (Michael talking about why he chose the peacock for the design on the back of The Jacksons "Destiny" album).

"We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel fom each other and their environment. Often this alienation has its roots in an emotionally deprived childhood. Children have had their childhood stolen from them. A child's mind needs the nourishment of mystery, magic, wonder, and excitement. I want my work to help people rediscover the child that's hiding in them."

"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. So I stay in the moment and listen. What I hear is never the same. A walk through the woods brings a light, crackling song: Leaves rustle in the wind, birds chatter and squirrels scold, twigs crunch underfoot, and the beat of my heart holds it all together. When you join the flow, the music is inside and outside, and both are the same. As long as I can listen to the moment, I'll always have music."

"Holding on to love is not wrong, but you need to learn to hold it lightly, caressingly. Let it fly when it wants. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful, and new. It's the juice and energy that motivates my music, my dancing, everything. As long as love is in my heart, it's everywhere."

"Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts. This has so much to teach. If a child wants chocolate ice cream, he just asks for ti. Adults get tangled up in complications over whether to eat the ice cream or not. A child simply enjoys. What we need to learn from children isn't childish. Being with them connects us to the deep wisdom of life, which is everpresent and only asks to be lived. Now, when the world is so confused and its problems so complicated, I feel we need our children more than ever. Their natural wisdom points the way to solutions that lie, waiting to be recognized, within our own hearts."

"It's on the level of purity and love and just innocence, complete innocence. If you are talking about sex, then that's a nut. It's not me. Go to the guy down the street 'cause it's not Michael Jackson. It's not what I'm interested in." (from the Diane Sawyer interview when being questioned about the allegations)

"Don't believe the garbage, all the tabloid junk. Don't read it, don't listen to it. It's garbage, it's junk. It's stupid. Enough of it."

"Prejuidice is ignorance. Ignorance breeds hostility.

"To help the children is not charity, it's our duty."

"Our children are the most beautiful, most sweet, most treasured of our creations. And yet, every minute at least 28 children die. Today our children are at risk of being killed by disease, and by the violence of war, guns, abuse, and neglect. Children have few rights and no one to speak for them. They have no voice in our world..."Please, join me and the children to help heal the world. Togethere, parents, communiities, governments- all people of the world- we must put our children first. Finally, and most importantly, I want to tell the children of the world: You are all our children, each one of you is my child, and I love you."

"Tito, Marlon, Jackie, Jermaine and Randy...I love you all...I'll be there." (from "I'll Be There" on the 'Dangerous' concert)

"I can forget all kinds of thing- But I'll never forget a melody."

"I'll tell [fatally ill] kids, 'I'll see you next year' and sometimes the thought that I'll be back next year makes them hang on. That's happened several times."

"It was hard to have your life turn into public property, even if you appreciated that people were interested in you because of your music." (from 1970)

"When I was young, the people I watched were the real showmen-James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly. A great showman touches everybody."

"This was in 1972 when I was 14 years old. They wanted me to sing a certain way and I knew they were wrong. No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, people should listen to you."

"I believe in doing better work. Just like the old saying, 'You don't get older, you get better.'"

"It has made me realize that the more times you hear a lie, the more you begin to believe it. It's appalling the things that have been said about me, and they're completely false."

"My biggest fear is being misquoted. One word can be cut into a statement and change the complete meaning and colouring of what was meant. Lately, people have been twisting everything I've been saying and that's why I shy away from many interviews. I don't like to be misrepresented to my fans. I accept that I can't stop rumours. But when it's something serious and I get wrongly quoted, that's very wrong...so, if I can't be quoted properly, I'd rather not be quoted at all."

"When we came off the plane in [Dakar] Africa we were greeted by a long line of African dancers. Their drums and sounds filled the air with rhythms. I was going crazy, I was screaming 'All right! I've got the rhythm...This is it! This is where I come from. The origin.'"

"For me, it's like the dawn of civilization. It's the first place where society existed...I guess there's that connection because it is the root of all rhythm. Everything. It's home."

"I had pimples so bad, it made me so shy. I used to not look at myself, I'd wash my face in the dark. I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I hated it, and I cried every day because of it. He would tell me I was ugly."

"It is something which I cannot help. It is in my family on my father's side. I use make-up to even out the blotches. When people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am it hurts me."

"What about all the millions of people who sit out in the sun to become darker, to become other than what they are. No one says anything about that."