Leonard Cohen is amazing →

“At a certain point, through some graceful accident, I was invited into Edie Sedgwick’s room. It was filled with very beautiful young people. It was dark, and illuminated by candles, 30 to 40 candles, burning everywhere, on plates, on the stove … I had no credentials at the time, there was nothing I could say. I walked into the room of her glittering crew, and I said, ‘this display of candles is extremely dangerous.’

“So, I presented myself as … an Expert in The Candle. And this did not go over well. So I left at an appropriate time. The next day, her apartment burned down, and my prestige soared.”

and

Asked about the sense of peace and acceptance you can hear in the new songs, and where that source of light is from in his life, he replies, “It’s probably not a good idea to do an autopsy on a living thing.”