“I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.”
Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition
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“English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.”
“You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.”
Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition
“You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.”
“Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.”
“A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.”
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“I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.”
“I turned my back on the devil, turned my back on the angel too.”
“One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.”
“Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.”
“To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.”
“I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.”
“Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.”
“The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.”
“It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.”
“I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.”
“I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].”
“Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.”