David Geffen

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

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

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.

Some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

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.

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.

If The Beatles or the 60’s had a message, it was ‘Learn to swim. And once you’ve learned – swim!’

(On his feud with rapper Ja Rule) Right now he’s desperate. He should be talking about me, not Eminem and (Dr. Dre) and everybody else. He’ll lose, he knows that. The route that he has to take is the “I’m a mad gangsta” hardcore route, and ain’t nobody gonna believe him.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

I still like to get carried away – but passively.

Confidence is everything in this business.

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

I don’t want to be somebody else.

When David Beckham got a tattoo of Jesus, the response from most soccer fans was, ‘That’s huge for Jesus. That’s a big deal for him’.

Trump’s presidency is like one of his handshakes: it pulls you in whether you like it or not.

I think they want to keep it separate, but I’ve never been a crossover artist for some reason.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don’t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

No other formula gives your baby a better start at life except that stuff that comes out of you for free.

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I’ve always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car….Sometimes the parting was so fast, I was not able to get them into alphabetical order, but I still got away with my records, that was essential.

I’m a weirdo. I don’t leave the house unless I have to.