David Geffen

Some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

[To Jimmy Webb] You’re really interested in a career? Wow, I just thought you were some guy who hung out in Las Vegas with Connie Stevens.

This Velvet Mafia thing is just another homophobic, nasty kind of thing that jealous queens make up.

Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy, doesn’t have money.

There was no word dyslexia when I was a kid. You were just dumb.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn’t even know there was a show business.

Not only is it a part of my life, I need to bring awareness to the severity of Lyme disease.

[on depression] This is a disorder that affects millions of people and I am on of them. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

If today I can practice a sport, and move around 90% of the time without a cane, it’s because of the love and support of my producers, record labels and above all my audience who have always believed in me. Otherwise I wouldn’t have made much more progress than I did in the hospital.

My brain and my heart are really important to me, I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn’t I go to a shrink?

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

Need a whole new syntax for fatigue on days like this.

At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distraction.

After the accident, I had to reconstruct myself completely. I was taught to see again and to hear with hearing aids. My body had to be completely reprogrammed. And music therapy was at the core of the healing process.

It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn’t even think. That’s the whole trouble. When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I got the mumps. They threw me in a crib so I wouldn’t roll out onto the floor. And there’s a big bay window in my house, and that window stayed perfectly still until that train started to chug. At a certain speed, I could reach up and feel the pane, and that glass pane would vibrate. I said, Doggone, there’s got to be a reason for this. So I go to the kindergarten teacher, and she takes me to the science teacher, and the science teacher takes me to the library and reads it off to me — “This is called resonance.” That was the beginning.

I’m struggling just to get through the days. I think a lot of people are.

I want to change the stigma of crazy, of mental health – period.

I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate – treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn’t be sustainable for me, and that’s what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

It’s not just people who can’t find a job, or can’t fit in in society that struggle with depression sometimes.