(b. 1934– )
Canadian-born singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist
Leonard Cohen
My ordinary state of mind is very much like the waiting room at the DMV.
Songwriters on Songwriting by Paul Zollo (New York: Da Capo Press, 2003).
We walked between the rows of sewing machines, cutting tables, defunct steam pressers. There is nothing more quiet than a still factory.
Beautiful Losers (New York: Vintage, 1993), 42.
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
“Anthem,” The Future (Columbia, November, 1992).