LOS ANGELES — Phil Spector's newly released deposition in a civil suit may not contain the smoking gun prosecutors are looking for, but it does offer some insights into the 66-year-old producer's personal life. Here are some things you may not have known, based on answers Spector gave in his July 19, 2005, deposition:

* For the past eight years, Spector took daily doses of Prozac, Clonopin, Neurontonin — and two other medications he couldn't recall — to help relieve manic depression and symptoms he described as "sleeplessness, depression, mood changes, mood swings, hard to live with, hard to concentrate, hard — just hard — a hard time getting through life."

* Is he insane? Spector says he may have once questioned his sanity with a reporter in jest, "because I've been called a genius and I think genius is not there all the time and has borderline insanity."

* He had a son named Philip who died, reportedly of leukemia, at the age of 10.

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* His cocktail of choice is vodka with orange juice, but the 5' 7" 135-pound lightweight says he never drinks more than three at a sitting.

* He is engaged to a 25-year old model/actress named Rachelle Short.

* When he was arrested, police officers on the scene Tasered and tackled him after he allegedly refused to follow their orders. Spector says he was later treated for a "broken septum" and a "cracked spine."

* Spector claims he was unaware that Clarkson was dead until he was booked on suspicion of murder and heard a radio report about her death in the car after his release. "I knew of my own knowledge she had been shot," Spector said, "but I didn't know that anybody had been — was — was dead."