I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.