I do love Shirley Jackson, but I don’t deserve to be named in connection with her. I remember reading ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ and having goosebumps for hours. The way she builds narrative pressure in that book is just amazing. I think you could reread it a few times and actually go out of your mind.
I listen to a lot of oldies stuff. Some Motown, Michael Jackson, jazz, etc.
Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good.
When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn’t an issue.
I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.
My introduction to Motown was through The Jackson Five and Michael Jackson. Michael’s been my greatest creative inspiration, so that’s how I really became familiar with Motown as a whole, and as I got older, I learned far more about the other groups.
In Buffalo, you can’t imagine how much people revere Fred Jackson because of his high character, his community involvement, coming from a Division III school.
I remember I met Mark Jackson – and even now he still remembers me from middle school.
I would love to do a song with Janet Jackson. Janet was, is, forever will be, the ultimate. She’s the ultimate dream girl for every guy – and for every girl.
I don’t know who’s worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.
I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!
I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me. Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school. It’s very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.
Michael’s the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it’s Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.
I want to be better than Bo Jackson, hopefully.
I started dreaming of becoming a singer after seeing Michael Jackson in the ‘Billie Jean’ video. The mix of fantastic choreography and amazing music made such a huge impact on the music industry.
It’s a good bet that if Jesse Jackson calls something a ‘civil rights issue,’ it’s not.
To describe the world Michael Jackson has created around himself as a childhood fantasy isn’t quite accurate. Thanks to wealth and celebrity, he has been able to live as a superannuated child. With the help of plastic surgery and dramatic affectation, he has made himself look and sound pre-pubescent.
My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.
I’ve been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.
I love Janet Jackson.
I get a lot of Vincent Jackson comparisons, and that’s a great comparison. But I think Brandon Marshall. He’s vicious after the catch. A big, physical guy, can go up and get it, blocks real well. So I’ve modeled my game after him since high school.
My biggest style inspirations come from the ’90s. I’m really inspired by TLC, Janet Jackson, and designers like Jeremy Scott. I’m hugely inspired by Club Kids from New York back in the ’90s. I’m inspired by the drag queen scene. Combat boots and the torn off jeans and a baggy shirt – I love that look.
When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson’s ‘Off the Wall.’
I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray – if I hear something really great… I want to be a part of it.
The theme of the party was Neverland Ranch, so guests were asked to come as anyone or anything associated with Michael Jackson. It was all very disturbing.
I don’t think I’ll be remembered in a big Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin way. I think I’ll be remembered in this way: by the people who were there, who can’t capture or explain it. I’m not trying to brag or anything. It’s not about me. It’s about facilitating a good time for everyone.
I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson’s death or Britney Spears’ latest breakdown – topics that were ‘breaking news’ at the time.
Drake come out there and he play his music and everybody just go crazy. Michael Jackson come out there and breathe.
There probably won’t be an animated The Roots or Black Thought as there was, say, an animated Michael Jackson when ‘The Jackson 5’ cartoon show was on when we were kids.
I’ve worked with all sorts of random people – everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I’ve got a really strange CV. It’s interesting – I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it’s like to work with random people.
My ‘Slide Some Oil’ ain’t gon’ be Nipsey Russell’s ‘Slide Some Oil.’ Elijah Kelley’s ‘You Can’t Win’ ain’t gon’ be Michael Jackson’s ‘You Can’t Win.’
I have great coaches, but one thing I’ve never really had is that head coach – a Greg Jackson, Matt Hume, John Hackleman.
Playing Michael Jackson’s memorial service was one of the hardest things to do because it was literally a few days after he had passed, and Kenny Ortega, who was directing it all, was like ‘You’re gonna come out and sing.’ So not only was I completely shaken up, I didn’t know how I was gonna get through it.
Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She’s a perfect coach.
Can’t step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can’t do that!
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.
There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
I think more like an entertainer rather than just a rapper. My overall goal is to never be listed as just a rapper. You know how Michael Jackson was listed as a great entertainer? That’s what I want to be.
I would love to have a chat with Michael Jackson. For the sole purpose of seeing if he has a deep voice or not. A lot of people say he actually had a deep baritone, but then on TV he always had the high pitched squeaky voice. I would love to spend some time with him.
Somebody approached me about working with Michael Jackson, and I did say no because I like working with new artists or people that I’ve worked with in the past. I can develop them from the ground up. There’s no set standard that I have to live up to or anything like that.
The difference between me and them is that I’ll look at Jesse Jackson and I’ll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they’ll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.
We named the film ‘Action Jackson’ because our hero, Ajay Devgn, is known as ‘AJ,’ and we thought it would be a good idea to use the initials and extend it into the title ‘Action Jackson,’ as Ajay is doing both action and dancing in the film.
There’s a whole other chapter of my life where I was, for 15 years, the significant other of coach Phil Jackson.
When Peter Jackson made the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn’t read Tolkien wouldn’t go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
People always say, ‘How is it to be so successful?’ I’m not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That’s successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I’m just a guy, doing okay. But I’m a happy guy doing okay.
The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I’ll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I’ll invite all my friends and just stay at home.
I signed a contract with Phil Jackson, the man who has more championship rings, as far as I know, than anybody else. He was the best guy we thought we could find to run the New York Knicks.
From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk and indie rock, to getting to play my own songs and have people listen, music is what got me through.
Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.
The person I call my secret weapon is an arranger, pianist and musical director, Herman Jackson.
Michael Jackson, the 49ers and the Lakers – that’s what I know about the ’80s.
Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain’t going to accept nothing but a winner.
I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.
There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela.
When I did ‘Percy Jackson,’ people told me, ‘Oh, you’re going to be so famous… you’re not going to be able to walk down the street… it’s going to be huge,’ and it wasn’t – although it was big for my career.
We saw Jesse Jackson the victim of a smear campaign. People remember the Dean scream that was used against Howard Dean as a peace candidate who was doing well. So, in many ways, the Democratic Party creates campaigns that fake Left while it moves Right and becomes more corporatist, more militarist, more imperialist.