Creativity Quote by Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson turns a life philosophy into a kind of backstage reassurance: the show will be chaos, but you can survive it if the green room is warm. The line works because it’s not selling optimism; it’s shrinking the problem. “Everything that happens in between” is an audacious compression of failure, betrayal, illness, tabloids, addiction, and loneliness into a single middle act. By minimizing the “between,” he elevates the bookends - being loved on arrival and on exit - as the only narrative stakes that matter.

The intent feels both aspirational and defensive. Jackson is offering a coping framework that doesn’t require control over events, only over the story you tell yourself about worth. “Can be dealt with” is telling: not “won’t hurt,” not “will be fair,” just manageable. It’s the language of someone who knows pain is not optional, but meaning might be.

The subtext is especially charged given Jackson’s public life, which was defined by extremes: mass adoration paired with relentless suspicion, intimate vulnerability alongside celebrity’s dehumanizing machinery. For a pop figure whose love was often mediated through stadiums, cameras, and commerce, the word “loved” reads as a plea for something pre-fame and post-fame - love that isn’t transactional, hysterical, or conditional.

Culturally, it’s a rebuttal to the celebrity myth that success is the ultimate buffer. Jackson suggests the opposite: without a stable sense of being loved, even the highest highs become part of the “between” you’re merely enduring.