THAT'S FINE
"I wouldn't say I was sexy! But I guess that's fine if that's what they say." (1984)
ONLY ONE SIDE
"There's two sides to every story but most of the time only one side is the truth."
GIVE
WISDOM OF MJ
THROUGH THE TALENT
"I'm just a person who wants to be honest and do good, make people happy and give them the greatest sense of escapism through the talent God has given me." (1999)
WHAT GOES THROUGH
"If I went on stage thinking about what goes through women's heads, I would never go out on stage."
LOVE
"Make love your weapon to overcome any evil."
GIVING AND RECEIVING
"Love works two ways, giving and receiving."
PUT YOUR MIND TO WHAT YOU'RE DOIN'
"It's not hard. You just have to put your mind to what you're doin', and that's all there is to it."
LISTEN
"When you want to be close to me, listen to the music – the love is stored there and will not die."
HOW
"I can't ignore someone that's in need or hurting. How can people just turn their heads from something like that?"
FEEL IT
THE SEEDS OF CREATIVITY
"The sound of a approval rose across the Universe and the whole world abounds in magic. Wonder fills our hearts, for we have glipmsed, for an instant the playfulness of life and that’s why I love children and learn so much from being around them. I realise that many of our world’s problems today from the inner-city crime to large-scale wars and terrorism and our overcrowded prisons are a resault of the fact that children have had their childhood stolen from them. The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world, I really believe that.”
ALL ART HAS ITS ULTIMATE GOAL
"I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and devine."
THAT'S WHERE I'M SAFE
THAT REAL MAGIC
"Grown-ups are really nothing but children who have lost all that real magic."
THE LYRICS OF "BEAT IT"
"The lyrics of 'Beat it' express something I would do if I were in trouble. Its message – that we should abhor violence – is something I believe deeply. It tells kids to be smart and avoid trouble. I don't mean to say you should turn the other cheek while someone kicks in your teeth, but, unless your back is agains the wall and you have absolutely no choice, just get away before violence breaks out. If you fight and get killed, you've gained nothing and lost eveything. You're the loser, and so are the people who love you. That's what 'Beat it' is supposed to get across. To me, true bravery is setting differences without a fight and having the wisdom to make that solution possible."
YOU CAN
"If someone ever tells you that you can't, all you have to do really is remove the T at the end because you CAN."
SPECIAL
THEY SAVE ME
"I love children so much. Thank God for children. They save me every time."