The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.

I have an inate curiosity about people.

The right path and easy path are usually two different things, and when it’s time to choose, always choose the right path over the easy.

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.

Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.

I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.