Live, Be, Move, Rejoice --

When I Step Out On Stage In Front Of Thousands Of People, I Don't Feel That I'm Being Brave. It Can Take Much More Courage To Express True Feelings To One Person. [...] In Spite Of The Risks, The Courage To Be Honest And Intimate Opens The Way To Self-discovery. It Offers What We All Want, The Promise Of Love.

I'm Not A Comedian. I'm Not A Show Host. I'm A Musician. That's Why I've Turned Down Offers To Host The Grammy Awards And The American Music Awards. Is It Really Entertaining For Me To Get Up There And Crack A Few Weak Jokes And Force People To Laugh Because I'm Michael Jackson, When I Know In My Heart That I'm Not Funny?

All The Forms Of Popular Music From Jazz To Hip-hop, To Bebop, To Soul [come From Black Innovation]. You Talk About Different Dances From The Catwalk, To The Jitterbug, To The Charleston, To Break Dancing -- All These Are Forms Of Black Dancing...what Would [life] Be Without A Song, Without A Dance, And Joy And Laughter, And Music.

Like The Bible Says. A Child Should Be Leader Of Them All, And To Be Led By That Kind Of Innocence. Didnt Jesus Say Bring On The Children? Be Like The Children. Not Childish, But Child-like. That Kind Of Innocence.

If You Enter This World Knowing You Are Loved And You Leave This World Knowing The Same, Then Everything That Happens In Between Can Be Dealt With.