David Geffen

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

This thing is really silly. I don’t want to hurt you anymore, and I’m too powerful for you to hurt. I forgive you for all the times you’ve f*cked me in the past and for all the times you’re going to f*ck me in the future.

It’s very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they’ve made to my life.

That had her lip-syncing to a record… There was no protection for her as a person or as an artist…

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself for whatever reasons, for whatever circumstances, through whatever he has gone through, that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

I thought Laura’s record was going to be huge… It was not successful it sold something like 20 or 30,000 albums. Laura lacked a certain level of ambition and didn’t really want to do the things that people do to become known. So I thought I’d better get people to record these songs and make them hits so that people will see that she’s a great songwriter.

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

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

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

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.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

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

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

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

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Yes. I am mentally ill. I’m not embarrassed about it. And I have written my best work not when flirting with the brink, but when treating my chronic health problem with consistency and care.

I feel like there’s this glamour… where the woman who has a psychological illness is in fur, laid out on a chaise. Whereas in reality, a woman with mental illness or… is struggling with her psychological wellbeing is often in sweats and in a T-shirt that used to belong to her dad and is covered in food bits.

You may feel depressed, but it can’t be so depressing that you can’t move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!