Quotes from Michael Jackson

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.

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.

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.

I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards.

I want to do something to help those who lost their parents, who lost their mothers and their fathers. Those are our people. Those are our children. Those are our parents.

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

My mother is fine. For me it perfection.

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

Whatever you believe, you become.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

When you want to be close to me, listen to the music. The love is stored there and will not die.

With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

Of course, I believe in love. Its beautiful when it's right. My love life is like my music.

Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.

I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.

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

When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.

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.