I just don't like being on a lot of different things or being everywhere because I get kind of embarrassed.
I think secretly and privately there is a destiny for me and just for me to stay on that track and follow it. I really believe and feel I am here for a reason and that's my job, you know, to perform for the people and if they accept it that I am rewarded.
I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.
A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.
Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.
When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.
I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.
My singing... I'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly.
There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.
I put real pressure on myself and I demand the best out of myself.
I am scared of my father to this day. My father walked in the room - and God knows I am telling the truth - I have fainted in his presence many times. I have fainted once to be honest. I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting and I know I am in trouble.
The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.
If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.
People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.
I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.
I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.
There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.
I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.
If you're satisfied with everything you're just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead.
I do believe deeply in perfection. I'm never satisfied.
I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words and in song and in dance I think that is what artistry is.
I think about our planet. I mean how to make it a better planet. The global warming issue is a concern to me very much. Just make the world a better, happier place. It's our home. I'd like to see us do a better job of taking care of it.
I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.
I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.
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