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

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.

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

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

We are all wonderful souls.

Fear of nature led to society

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.

Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.

Words that may be firm in information can be soft in spirit.