Michael Talks To Oprah(February 10,1993)-(6)

Michael: Well, especially now I come to realize, back then I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep. And I remember going to the record studio there was a park across the 거리 and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
Oprah: I want to go to this and show some pictures of 당신 as a little boy.
Michael: OK.
Oprah: Susan said it was a heavy price. I want to know how big of a price it was, losing your childhood 또는 having this kind of life?
Michael: Well, 당신 don't get to do things that other children get to do, 당신 know, having 프렌즈 and slumber parties and buddies. There was none of that for me. I didn't have any 프렌즈 when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
Oprah: Was there ever a place where, because 당신 know children; because I remember talking to myself and playing with my dolls. Was there...And I think every child needs a place to escape into, a child's world, a child's imagination. Was there ever a time 당신 could do that?
Michael: No. And that is why I think now because I didn't have it then, I compensate for that. People wonder why I always have children around. Because I find the thing that I never had through them, 당신 know Disneyland, amusement parks, arcade games. I adore all that stuff because when I was little it was always work, work, work; from one 음악회, 콘서트 to the next. If it wasn't a 음악회, 콘서트 it was the recording studio; if it wasn't that it was TV shows 또는 interviews 또는 picture sessions. There was always something to do.
Oprah: Did 당신 feel, Smokey Robinson said this about you, and so have many other people, that 당신 were like an old soul in a little body.