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It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?

Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children.

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting.

I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.

I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition.

Michael Jackson is so unique, and I look up to him and try to imbibe as much from him and marry it to my own style.

There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.

If we all had a little bit of Michael Jackson in us, I think it would make the world a better place.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.