Why not just tell people I’m an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They’ll believe anything you say, because you’re a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, ‘I’m an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight,’ people would say, ‘Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is
nuts
. He’s cracked up. You can’t believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth.’
Michael Jackson to J. Randy Taraborrelli, September 1995