“I have a very dark side, a side that has struggled a lot with depression, and I’ve never been one who showed that to the oustide world. I think when you say to someone, ‘Good morning, How are you?’ they should say, ‘Great, terrific,’ because everyone struggles in life. The Yves Saint Laurent thing used to drive me nuts—his depressions, his alcoholism, his addictions, his whatever. Most people have a lot of problems. You can define yourself by them, or you can realize that everyone is going through what you’re going through and you make the best of it and you get on with your life and you don’t necessarily inflict that, because others probably have that too. They’re just not inflicting it on you.” –Tom Ford, W Magazine, December 2009
