Latest Michael Jackson Quotes from Interviews

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• I just don't like being on a lot of different things or being everywhere because I get kind of embarrassed.

  Michael Jackson

  Different, Kind, Embarrassed

• I think secretly and privately there is a destiny for me and just for me to stay on that track and follow it. I really believe and feel I am here for a reason and that's my job, you know, to perform for the people and if they accept it that I am rewarded.

  Michael Jackson

  Jobs, Believe, Destiny

• 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.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Names, Apples

• A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.

  Michael Jackson

  People, Praying, Feds

• Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Feelings, Rooms

• When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.

  Michael Jackson

  Happens, Knows, Just Do It

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

  Michael Jackson

  Hate, Labels, Should

• My singing... I'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly.

  Michael Jackson

  Godly, Simple, Singing

• There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Nuts, People

  "Michael Jackson: 'I am scared of my father'". Interview with Shmuley Boteach, www.nbcnews.com.

• I put real pressure on myself and I demand the best out of myself.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Demand, Pressure

  Source: www.today.com

• I am scared of my father to this day. My father walked in the room - and God knows I am telling the truth - I have fainted in his presence many times. I have fainted once to be honest. I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting and I know I am in trouble.

  Michael Jackson

  Hurt, Father, Auras

  Source: www.today.com

• The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

  Michael Jackson

  Teacher, Writing, Class

  "Michael Jackson: 'I am scared of my father'". Interview with Shmuley Boteach, www.nbcnews.com.

• If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Ifs And, Down And

  Source: www.today.com

• People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.

  Michael Jackson

  Opposites, People, Abuse

  Source: www.today.com

• I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Talking, People

  Source: www.today.com

• I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.

  Michael Jackson

  Mean, Rooms, Scream

  "The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation". Book by Shmuley Boteach, 2009.

• There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.

  Michael Jackson

  Kings, Real, Kids

  Source: www.today.com

• I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.

  Michael Jackson

  Baseball, Football, Kids

  Source: www.today.com

• If you're satisfied with everything you're just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead.

  Michael Jackson

  Moving, World, Levels

  Source: blankonblank.org

• I do believe deeply in perfection. I'm never satisfied.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Perfection, Satisfied

  Twitter post from Feb 5, 2016

• I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words and in song and in dance I think that is what artistry is.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Pain, Compassion

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I think about our planet. I mean how to make it a better planet. The global warming issue is a concern to me very much. Just make the world a better, happier place. It's our home. I'd like to see us do a better job of taking care of it.

  Michael Jackson

  Jobs, Home, Mean

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Dancing, Performing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, People, World

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.

  Michael Jackson

  Truth Is, Vindicated

  Source: www.nbcnews.com