Drew Pinsky

“What people think when they see me on TV is that they're experiencing me but they're not.”

“Students have tons of health and intimacy and relationship questions, and no one's listening to them.”

“Thank God I'm a horrible musician. Good singer, horrible musician.”

“Just like everybody else, celebrities have brains and those brains get conditions - addiction, depression.”

“Brains affect brains through far more means than words and listening.”

“I'm an internist by training.”

“I do not know Rep. Weiner. But I do know he seems to have the features of a narcissist. Narcissists feel empty. Narcissists feel invincible. But their emotional landscape is barren.”

“Families that have addicted members learn to operate with secrecy.”

“I tell young people all the time, and now I'm telling anyone, no matter what your age: You can't take back the stuff you put out there on Twitter and Facebook, even e-mails.”

“People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.”

“I'm interested in interpersonal space.”

“Guys are much happier when someone puts a limit on their behavior and causes them to make a real connection with another person.”

“What people have trouble getting their head around is the idea that a celebrity, somebody whom they admire, somebody who seems to have everything, would even be depressed.”

“You don't have to have a physical relationship with someone other than your spouse or significant other to betray him or her.”

“A little whiff of a mental health issue never hurt anybody.”

“People think you go to doctors for their knowledge. You don't go to doctors for their knowledge. You go to doctors for their judgment, their instinct, what to do, how to make the right call.”

“The problem with my peers is they don't understand television. You have to work within the confines of what executives will allow you to put on TV. Otherwise, we've not done anything, we've not really struggled to change the culture at all.”

“In terms of establishing a connection between a therapist and a patient, that work needs to be done in person.”

“We want to blame people who have brain disorders - they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It's a profound misconception.”

“People have sort of been swirling around me, going, 'Oh, you should run for mayor.' Well I didn't really want that job. 'Well, you should run for governor.' Well, that's not really possible.”