Michael Jackson Quotes

I was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar. I think some of the treatment was pretty cruel.

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

I have been hit from all sides, and I'm only human. They have ended up talking about the way I look, and it hurts. I have a family, and they suffer, too. It has gone over the limit, and I am tired of it. I have a wife and child, too, and I am not prepared to go on putting up with it English journalists.

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.

Will I ever forgive the British media for what they've done to me? No.

I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.

I don't know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people's private lives.

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

I never feel that far away from the tabloids.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.