David Geffen

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

Of course it scored well! It was all fags and old people!

In my experience, there was never anything quite like the egos in CSNY.

Did I have a problem with lying to get the job? None whatsoever.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing – but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

My mother was an entrepreneur… She found being on relief humiliating. She built this business from scratch… In 1951 my mother opened this store…

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.

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.

I’ll drink water. Sometimes tomato juice, which I like. Sometimes orange juice, which I like. I’ll drink different things. But the Coke or Pepsi boosts you up a little.

You don’t see the mental illness: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst. But it’s there. Why do you need to prove it?

And every person can benefit from talking to somebody. I’m the most anti-medication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

There’s not shame in dealing with these things. There’s no shame in having to fight everyday.

It’s not about eating healthy to lose weight. It’s about eating healthy to feel good.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

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

When individuals have access to the information about their bodies they can begin to change outcomes.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, y’know, is always with you.

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?

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.