Michael Jackson Factbook

Music #2

"I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation. Lets face it, who wants mortality?"

Michael Jackson, Ebony interview, 2007.

 "People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song. So I stay in the moment and listen.

What I hear is never the same. A walk through the woods brings a light, crackling song: Leaves rustle in the wind, birds chatter and squirrels scold, twigs crunch underfoot and the beat of my heart holds it all together. When you join the flow, the music is inside and outside, and both are the same. As long as I can listen to the moment, I'll always have music."

Michael Jackson in his book Dancing the Dream.

"The songwriting process is something very difficult to explain, because it's very spiritual. It's, uh...You really have it in the hands of God, and it's as if its been written already - that's the real truth. As if its been written in its entirety before were born and you're just really the source through which the song come. Really. Because there is...they just fall right into your lap in it's entirety. You don't have to do much thinking about it. And I feel guilty having to put my name, sometimes, on the songs that I - I do write them - I compose them, I write them, I do the scoring, I do the lyrics, I do the melodies but still, it's a...it's a work of God."

Michael Jackson, online audio chat, October 21st, 2001.

"I love to write songs. It's one of my favorite things to do. It's very spiritual. It's a connection. I'm just a source through which it comes. I'm inspired by a lot of things but it's done in the heavens. I listen to the music and I just create from there."

Michael Jackson.