Michael Jackson

Jackson is interviewed during the Making of Beat It the Music video. He discusses what inspired him to create the song, his inclusion of real gang members in the music video, who he considers his real personal friends. He also talks about how the gang world is nothing like what he is used to and how it scares him.

I get afraid of people. I don’t really know people sometimes. It’s a whole ‘nother life that I…I haven’t really experienced that. Like friendship is thing I’m just beginning to learn about. I was raised on the stage and that’s where I’m comfortable and everything else is like foreign to me. I’m just beginning to learn about people, friendship, things like that.

Jackson does an interview and talks about his llama, Louie, in his mother’s home in Encino, California. He also talks about his inspiration for writing his songs, the spirituality that children, animals and God have given to his success and the time of the day that he chooses to create. There are a few moments where Jackson sings acapella in the spirit of the moment.

I’ve always said I don’t write my own songs, because I feel I’m just a source, I’m just a tunnel, tube through which they come. I feel somewhere in space they’ve all been written before. I mean Billie Jean and Beat It and all those songs have been up there somewhere they just came through to me. That’s how I really feel. So even though I did it, I just can’t always take credit.

Jackson interviews with ET about the success of his platinum album Thriller.

Every-time I get a platinum album it is never taken lightly on my behalf I’m always honored.

Jackson’s parents, Joe and Katherine and his brothers are interviewed by Sylvia Chase. They talk about how Jackson and his brothers intensely rehearsed everyday after school, how Jackson became shy over time and the energy that is felt from their growing fans which keeps them constantly motivated. Michael:

On stage means the greatest place in the world. You just light up on stage – it’s magic.