852 Quotes by Michael Jackson

I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to be who I am.

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money – sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.

I made a terrible mistake. I got caught up in the excitement of the moment. I would never intentionally endanger the lives of my children. I love my children. I was holding my son tight. Why would I throw a baby off the balcony? That’s the dumbest, stupidest story I ever heard.

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.

I’ve heard that Black people and Black faces don’t sell magazines, but one day you’re going to beg me to be on there.

I’m a strong person. I’m a warrior and I know what is inside of me.

James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard – I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock’n’roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It’s so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole other world in books.

If you came to see the truth, the purity, it’s here inside a lonely heart.