A great and very positive interview about Michael. I have a lot of respect for Siedah Garret.
Siedah made a mistake saying see toured for a year and a half with Michael on the Bad Tour, because she wasn't on that tour (Sherly Crow was), she was toured with Michael on the Dangerous Tour.
As for Quincy telling Siedah Michael had been in the studio 3yrs before recording Bad. I think that's quite misleading. I know Michael started recording for the Bad album in 1986, so that would have ment Michael had been in the studio since 1983-86 during all of his promotion for the Thriller album, where Michael made not only made 2 (I think Billie Jean was filmed in 1982) music videos, but recorded songs for the Victory album, toured with The Jacksons for at least 6 months, wrote and recorded the his We Are The World, wrote and recorded 2 songs for Captain EO and filmed Captain EO. Oh yeah and co-wrote and recorded some vocals with Barry Gibb in 1985 for a song called Eaten Alive for Diana Ross. I think Michael was actually very productive before he actually started the Bad recording sessions in 1986.
I alsoknow Michael had finished recording the song Bad in 1986, because the Bad video was filmed in November 1986, and Michael filmed a Pepsi commercial with the song Bad in 1986.
I doubt Michael spends 3yrs or so holed up in a recording studio writing and composing lot's of songs with producers. It's far more likely Michael writes and composes demos at his home (or wherever he's living), and when he feels he as a number of great songs then he goes in to the studio with a producer and records higher quality demos etc. I'd say Michael spends no more than 2yrs in studios recording his albums. The Bad sessions where quite short from 1986-87, Dangerous sessions 1989-1991, History quite short 1994-95 and Invincible 1999-2001.
The media often mislead people in to thinking that the 6yrs between History and Invincible, is the amount of time Michael has spent recording his most recent album. When of course they forget about what Michael has done between that time, like touring for over a year, filming videos and "taking time off" from his career in music to be with his newly born son and daughter after the promotion of History between 1995-1997.
