David Geffen

I don’t think people get to be successful unless they have very strong egos.

We all acquire damage as infants and children and we work on removing those scars all of our lives. You won’t heal everything, but what’s important is the work.

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

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

We’re not motivated to make more money. We all have too much already. We want to do good work.

Why not blame the libraries? They’re full of violent books.

I’d like to win an Oscar.

So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

The only thing that I’m scared of is not livin’ up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.

Because we were raised around art and went to museums and the women I grew up around were curvy…there wasn’t this value on skinny, skinny, skinny. Curvy was clearly meant to be the winner. I go up and down a few pounds with a relative amount of kindness to myself. And I have a daughter, and I don’t want her to waste her time on all of that.

One failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all take off our shoes at the airport. Thirty-one school shootings since Columbine and no change in our regulation of guns.

I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn’t be here. I don’t mean to put them down, but I’m just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.

I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!

If you have physical attractiveness you don’t have to act.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

I couldn’t stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch – understand?

As you get older, your fingers sometimes swell. But I’ve missed 18 days in 65 years. Sometimes guys will just take off; I’ve never done that. If I’m booked to play, I go and play.

There are stereotypes and it is quite amazing how often members of bands seem to follow those stereotypes. Singers are all vain. Guitarists are all vain but won’t admit it. Bass players are quiet people, and drummers are very exciting people to be with.

Chris Rock once said something that was really interesting. He said, “Women would run the world if they didn’t hate each other.” That’s the only thing preventing us from running this entire planet, that we hate each other!

Prison sentences are a lot like penises – if they’re used correctly, even a short one can do the trick… is a rumor I have heard.

When I’m no longer rapping I want to open up an ice-cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.