"I'm not easy to live with in that way for a wife. I'm not easy and I know I'm not easy. Because I give all my time to someone else. I give it to children, I give it to somebody sick somewhere, to the music. And women want to be the centre. And I remember Lisa Marie would always say to me, 'I'm not a piece of furniture, I'm not a piece of furniture. You just can't...' I say, 'I don't want you to be a piece of furniture,' and, you know, there'd be some sick little girls calling on the phone and she'd get mad and hang up on them. And, you know, I feel that's my, that's my mission, Schmuley. I have to do it. (...)

I wanted children and she didn't. (...) And she promised me that before we married, that would be the first thing we'd do was have children. So I was broken-hearted and I walked around all the time holding these little baby dolls and I'd be crying, that's how badly I wanted them. So I was determined to have children. It disappointed me that she wouldn't keep her promise to me, you know? After we got divorced she would hang out with my mother all the time. I have all these letters saying, 'I'll give you nine children. I'll do whatever you want,' and of course the press don't know all these stories and she tried for months and months and I just became too hard-hearted at that point. I closed my mind to the whole situation. (...)"

- Michael Jackson in the MJ Tapes