Love Quote by Michael Jackson

There’s a quiet tragedy hiding inside this very polite sentence: he’s describing absence as if it’s just a scheduling quirk. Michael Jackson frames distance from family as the reasonable price of admission to a life in entertainment, and the phrasing matters. “We understand” isn’t just reassurance; it’s a script. It reads like the kind of line a “show business family” learns to deliver to outsiders so no one has to linger on what the work actually does to you.

The intent is public-facing warmth. “I love my family very much” is a disarming opener, the celebrity equivalent of pulling the camera into a close-up. But the emotional core sits in the mildness of “a little more often.” For someone whose life was famously outsized, the understatement signals either careful self-protection or long practice in minimizing pain. The subtext: longing has been normalized, even domesticated. Missing the people who raised you becomes an occupational hazard, not a wound.

Context sharpens it. Jackson’s childhood and family were inseparable from labor, rehearsal, touring, and scrutiny; the family unit functioned less like a refuge than a production company. So when he says “we all work,” he’s not bragging. He’s rationalizing an arrangement that collapses intimacy into logistics. It’s also a subtle plea for grace: don’t judge the absence, because the machine demands it and everyone in the family is inside the same machine.

What makes the quote land is its calm. The sadness isn’t performed; it’s administered. That’s the most show-business part of it.