Sylvie: It must be hard being an angel when you’re acknowledged as one of the sexiest performers around, have girls camping in your backyard and the like.
Michael: I wouldn’t say I was sexy! But I guess that’s fine if that’s what they say. I like that in concert. That’s neat.
Sylvie: You wonder how someone so sweet and shy and childlike gets to be such a demon onstage
Michael: I just do it really. The sex thing is kind of spontaneous. It really creates itself.
Sylvie: So you don’t practise being sexy in front of the mirror?
Michael: No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I’m uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you. ‘Interview with Creem 83’
November 18, 1987
Michael Jackson visits the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick, Australia. Natasha Lang, mother of a child committed in the hospital at the time, offers her account of his visit there years later:
“I will never forget that day as long as I live, when Michael came to the hospital with an abundance of stuffed animal toys, so generously given, to all the children in the children’s ward. He went around the ward and visited each child personally and quietly spoke words of comfort to them and I will never forget the delight of these children, the medical staff and the parents who visited on that day.
My son now is a grown man and I wish to share this photograph with the whole world because it shows Michael’s selfless and generous nature. My son, unfortunately, lost his eye in a school accident that week and, as you can imagine, it was a real tragedy for the whole family, but that day he gave us all some joy, great pleasure and an abundance of happiness.Michael, I know that you are with the angels and may God Bless your soul and, rest assured, you will live in our hearts forever. Thank you for the music.”
“Chris, I saw your movie Rush Hour 2, and you’re kicking with the wrong leg. Stop making me look bad!”
