I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I'm Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I'm not funny?

I just wish I could understand my father.

We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.

The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live.

I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.