Michael Talks To Oprah(February 10,1993)-(5)

Oprah: When I look at those tapes of you, and heaven knows, putting this together I think I've seen every piece of video ever done of you, and watching those tapes when, especially in the younger years, 你 seem to really come alive on stage. Were 你 as happy off stage as 你 appear to be on stage?
Michael: Well, on stage for me was home. I was most comfortable on stage but once I got off stage, I was like, very sad.
Oprah: Really?
Michael: Yes.
Oprah: And sad from the beginning, sad since it first started, sad?
Michael: Lonely, sad, having to face popularity and all that. There were times when I had great times with my brothers, 枕头 fights and things, but I was, I used to always cry from loneliness.
Oprah: Beginning at what age?
Michael: Oh, very little, eight, nine.
Oprah: When 你 all first became famous?
Michael: Yes.
Oprah: So it wasn't what it appeared to be to the rest of the world, all of us; I remember I was a little black child, wanted to marry Jackie Jackson, your brother, so I mean to all of us we thought this was the most wonderful thing in the world, who wouldn't have wanted that life?
Michael: It was wonderful. There is a lot of wonderment in being famous. I mean 你 travel the world; 你 meet people; 你 go places. It's great. But then there's the other side, which I'm not complaining about. There is lots of rehearsal and 你 have to put in a lot of your time, give of yourself a lot.
Oprah: Do 你 feel... I talked with Susan de Passe the other day, and Susan de Passe worked with 你 at Motown and really groomed 你 all and found the outfits for the Ed Sullivan Show. We talked about whether 或者 not it was really lost, was it?