David Geffen

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

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren’t trying to change the world. That’s what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I’ve known in my life. That’s just the truth.

[On Laura Nyro] Anything she wanted, I wanted to get for her.

I don’t agree that the best giving is anonymous. We should be examples to our friends and communities. I should be an example to young, gay kids. And it’s not like people are really anonymous anyway — you remember that episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm? In the end, everybody knows who ‘anonymous’ is.

People who are fools don’t get successful, and they don’t get to be successful if they are worried about their popularity.

[To his ex-entertainment lawyer Eric Eisner who resigned from the presidency of The David Geffen Company in 1991 just as a deal was about to be made with some Japanese] Keep your stock. [Eric sold it.]

The way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that’s only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Huge ego is very often matched by huge insecurity.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

Please stop debating about whether or not I aged well. Unfortunately it hurts all 3 of my feelings…

I’ve never had a problem with how I look. I’d rather have lunch with friends than go to the gym.

You are beautiful not because you are better than others, but because there is only you who can smile like that.

I have insecurities, of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

Baby, that’s just me.

I had plastic surgery because I was trying to look good for y’all.

It doesn’t have to take over your life, it doesn’t have to define you as a person, it’s just important that you ask for help. It’s not a sign of weakness.

I’m just a broken person looking for other broken people who may have gotten shards of me stuck in their feet and aren’t too concerned about pulling them out.

I have an attention span that’s as long as it has to be.

Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery

Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest -and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault!