Interviewer: How do you feel about the song ‘Bad’? We’ve talked earlier and I told you that I liked the song ‘Bad’ because it’s really all about you. You are the baddest when it comes to the record industry!
Michael: Uhm, well [laughs] it is quite different from anything i’ve ever recorded, or I’ve ever written. It’s a bold statement to say, but uhm, I mean it in an all good way! So don’t take it too seriously! yeah, I’m saying I’m.. It’s like a way of saying you’re ‘cool’, you’re ‘all right’, you’re ‘tough’. I’m not saying I’m like criminally bad, of course that’s how people would take it! Ebony/Jet interview ‘87