A friend of mine, in light of the mentioning of things from the guards, wanted me to share some words and thoughts that came from Michael Jackson himself. (Personally I don't think they said anything too bad. None of us really knows, even after hearing personal accounts from anyone who's met or seen or knows him. Without being him, how can we know what he's done or how he thinks or why he does anything.)
My friend gathered up all the quotes so the credit does not go to me. I'm just copy pasting them into here to share. What is true isn't changed by what others think. So no matter how much we believe we know about him or how much we hear about him, if we are wrong in what we believe then we are wrong. If we are right...we may never know for sure (though perhaps we can have a good idea).
So anyways.. enough of me rambling. Here's some quotes of his that we can take in and hopefully get to know him a bit better.
“Not on purpose (have I been romantic), but not unromantic. I don’t think so. You just be yourself. […] I don’t do that (matchmaking). I’m too shy to do all that stuff. I am a lot like my mother. We used to ask our mother ‘Do you kiss Joseph’? She goes “Don’t ask me these questions’. We go ‘Mother, do you kiss him?’, she goes ‘I don’t want to talk about it […] We don’t talk about it.”
“I believe in it [romance], but I am shy about it. None of us have invited our parents to our weddings. We don’t believe in it. We are too shy. I wouldn’t dare in a million years to have my mother at a wedding of mine. I can’t have myself walking down the aisle and my mother sitting there. […] She would have done the same thing. It’s like private, like mushy stuff. […] I am shy. I don’t know how good I am at [romance] because I’m shy. I’m very different in that way. I have heard guys be really poetic with girls, and ‘Oh, baby, this and that’. I’m not like that. I am like straight to the point and say it simply. […] That’s why it is my job to cast the girl, because it is my job to think they are cute. So I can do it if I really like them, like some of the girls you see in my videos. I have cast them because I really liked them and it caused a problem afterwards because they start to really like me and I don’t want to get that serious, and it becomes a problem sometimes. […] Some of them follow me around the world and it is so hard. [But I don’t tell them directly], because it would hurt them so much.”
“[Lady Diana] was classy and sincerely cared about people and children and the plight of what was going on in the world. She didn’t do it for show. […] [She was] very feminine and classy. She was my type for sure, and I don’t like most girls. There are very few I like who fit the mold. It takes a very special mold to make me happy and she was one of them. For sure.”
“It takes a lot to find a mirror image. People always say that opposites attract and I think that is true, as well. But I want somebody who is a lot like me, who has the same interests and who wants to help and they gotta go to hospitals with me and care […]
“I have never asked a girl out in my life. I can’t ask a girl out. […] Brooke Shields asked me out every time you saw us out together. It was her idea to go out and do it every time. I sincerely liked Brooke Shields too. I liked her a lot. My first girlfriend, Tatum O’Neil…I was sixteen, she was thirteen. And was I naïve. She wanted to do everything and I didn’t want to have sex at all, because there were a lot of values associated with being a Jehova’s Witness. I said ‘Are you crazy?’ One of those was to be kind to everyone. When I held Tatum’s hand it was just magic, better than anything, kissing her, anything. Her, Ryan O’Neil and myself went to this club and were watching a band and underneath the table she was holding my hand and I was melting. It was magical. There were fireworks going on. It was all I needed. But that means nothing to kids today. She grew up too fast. She wasn’t into innocence, and I love that.”
“Now Brooke Shields, she was one of the loves of my life. We dated a lot. Her pictures were all over my walls and mirrors. […] She was classy. We got one encounter when she got real intimate and I chickened out. And I shouldn’t have.”
“I find it harder to tell (innocence) with women, because they’re so smooth. But with men, I can usually tell, because they’re more open and like puppies, while girls are more like cats. You know how if you’ve been on vacation and get home and a puppy is all over you, while with a cat, it’s ‘Hey, I don’t need you. You walk over to me and pick me up.’ They give you attitude. They’ll walk right by you even though they haven’t seen you in three months. Women are very smart”.
“I think going away is good. Like they say, ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I totally believe in it. Going away is really important. I don’t understand how people can be together all day with each other and be totally fine. […]”
“[I was more interested in] the ones who were classy and quiet and not into all the sex and all the craziness because I’m not into that. […] I don’t understand a lot of things that go on in relationships and I don’t know if I ever will. I think that is what has hurt me in my relationships, because I don’t understand how people do some of the things they do. Mean things and vulgar things with their bodies. I don’t understand it and it has hurt my relationships. [For me love is something] very pure. It shocked me some of the things.”
“[The women] I have had are jealous of the children. All of them. They get jealous of their own kids and start competing with them. That rubs me in a bad way. I haven’t found it [women who want to play]. I think more guys are more apt to goof off. Even when they’re much older, their thirties, and a woman will come in and say ‘What are you doing? Don’t do that. Are you crazy?”
“It is a rarity [finding women who collect comics]. If I find one, I will go nuts. Especially, if she has those qualities and is beautiful inside. It would be a home run for me.”
“If the person is completely sincere […] who would read to [the children] and teach them and give them the right values and teach them that there’s no difference and that we are all the same people. […] I don’t like the women who are always saying “my nails need to be done. I have to do my toes. I need a manicure.” I hate all that. I like it when girls are a little bit more tomboyish. If they wrestle, climb a tree…I love that. It is sexier to me. I like class, though. Class is everything.”
“It is hard because the women today can do a good job of faking it. I mean a real good job. They are so smooth. Look in the Bible. Women have taken the most powerful men down to nothing because of what is between their legs. Samson, nobody could cut his hair, and he had sex with Delilah.”
“Take me to Disneyland. Take me to where the magic is.”
“Even when married to those women that I was married to, I’d go to bed hurting. I was hurting. I was crying last night as I went to sleep and I didn’t sleep good last night. And I cry, because I feel this….And I’m not trying, I’m telling you the honest truth and if you don’t believe you can ask Frank (Cascio). Frank knew how I was hurting. I just was feeling all the pain of the children who suffer and I was hurting so much. That’s why I was trying to reach any child I knew who had pain. […] I was trying to like, calling, dialing and I woke up the first thing, the first person I called was (a little sick girl’s) house and she had gone already. It hurts me. But I think that’s where my real love comes from. If I can help in that way, I’m fine and I don’t need the other [romantic love]. You now, if I meet some girl somewhere and I think she’s beautiful, which I see a lot of them, that’s great. I mean, I’ll go on a date or something. Nothing wrong with that.. […] I’m not easy to live with in that way for a wife. I’m not easy and I know I’m not easy. Because I give all my time to someone else. I give it to children, I give it to somebody sick somewhere, to the music. And women want to be the center. […] And, you know, I feel that’s my, that’s my mission. I have to do it. [If I found a woman who was that soft] like a Mother Theresa or a Lady Diana or..That would be great. It would be perfect.”
“It’s hard. That’s why it’s hard, it’s hard for me. It’s hard. It’s not easy for celebrities to be married.”
“I’m in love with innocence , that’s what I’m in love with. That’s why I love children so much. Innocence is God. To be that innocent and to approach things with such a sweet outlook on life…with truly just sweet…Where a kid will walk around the house and you’ll go ‘What are you doing?’ and they answer ‘I don’t know, playing’. It’s so sweet, I love that. […] One kid is screaming in the wind because he is feeling so good. He is just screaming to be screaming. I love that. Romance. Romance.”
“[Are] romance and love two different things? That’s why I’m getting confused. I see romance as something that is longed for. You long for that out of a stage. […] [Children] teach you to be loving and sweet and they teach us in that way…They give everybody a chance and I teach Prince and Paris to love everybody.”
‘When a lot of adults come to me, they look at me and they are checking out what you are wearing and who you are with. Then once they speak to me and they see that I’m just a simple person who wants to be a friend their heart melts. I see it.”
“Just be yourself, be like a child. Be innocent. Be the way you were when you were born.”
“With the pain and arrows that people have shot at me, nobody else would have been able to take it. They would have probably committed suicide by now…they would have become a drunk. Because they have been very cruel and rude to me. And if they don’t think I hear it and see it, I do. I do. It’s been the children. I’m holding on for them, or else I wouldn’t have made it. I really wouldn’t have made it.”
