Michael Jackson

"I wanted to write a song, the type of song that I would buy if I wanted a rock song. That is how I approached it and I wanted the kids to enjoy it. The next thing I can recall is the song being there. I think the gift is there naturally but the songs come through me."

American Music Awards, January 1986

"I always feel that it's done from above. I feel fortunate for being that instrument through which music flows. I'm just the source through which it comes. I can't take credit for it because it's God's work. He's just using me as a messenger."

Onstage 'Bad' tour, Japan, c.September 1987

"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."

At Madame Tussaud's, London, late-1980s

"I really believe that God chooses people to do certain things, the way Michaelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci or Mozart or Muhammed Ali or Martin Luther King is chosen... I haven't scratched the surface yet of what my real purpose is for being here. I'm committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal that union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine."

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