Michael Jackson: "I believe I’m one of the loneliest people in the world."

"Wacko Jacko - where'd that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice. Don't do it. I'm not a 'wacko'."
Speaking to TV journalist Barbara Walters in Paris, 1997

SHOOT: Personally I find the term 'Wacko' or 'Jacko' in reference to Michael Jackson in the press highly insensitive and highly offensive. The tabloids of course, love it, but they're in the business of glossing over reality, or distorting it, as long as they make money from it. It's just business. Like Princess Diana, Jackson was a victim of a media turned mean, predatory and savage.

clipped from entertainment.timesonline.co.uk "I love ET 'cos it reminds me of me. Someone from another world coming down and you becoming friends with them and this person is, like, 800 years old and he's filling you with all kinds of wisdom and he can teach you to fly. That whole fantasy thing which I think is great. I mean, who don't wanna fly?" Interview in Smash Hits, January 20, 1983 "Our parents taught us to always be respectful and, no matter what you do, to give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best." USA Today interview 2001 "I was so little when we began to work on our music that I don’t remember much about it. When you’re a showbusiness child people make a lot of decisions concerning your life when you’re out of the room". Jackson mused in his autobiography Moonwalk, published in 1988 "I believe I’m one of the loneliest people in the world." He wrote, in what was to become the most frequently quoted remark from his Moonwalk book