You'll never make me stay So take your weight off of me. I know your every move So won't you just let me be. I've been here times before But I was to… - Michael Jackson

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face. And you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry, I just didn't write this. It's there already.' That's why I hate to take credit for the songs I've written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it's been done and I'm just a courier bringing it into the world. I really believe that. I love what I do. I'm happy at what I do. It's escapism.

...so much joy to the world...and the system, meaning the record companies, totally took advantage of me.
This is very important, what we're fighting for, because I'm tired, I'm really REALLY tired of manipulation.
I'm tired of the how the press is manipulating everything that's been happening to this situation.
They do not tell the truth, they lie. They manipulate, they manipulate our history books.
The history books are not true: it's a lie. The history books are lying. You need to know that, you must know that.
All the forms of popular music: from jazz to hip-hop to be-bop to .. to SOUL.
To um, uh, dances, from the cake-walk. to the jitter-bug, to the Charleston, to uh, breakdancing.
All of these are forms of black dancing.

Just because it's in print, doesn't mean it's the gospel.