In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know?… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked By the winds of change and the weeds of sex looks like freedom… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“a fresh spiderweb billowing like a spinnaker across the open window and here he is the little master sailing by on a… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I do cherish those moments when I can just relax in the hotel room. Because there are a lot of details that… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul... — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Don't matter if you're rich and strong Don't matter if you're weak Don't matter if you write a song The nightingales repeat Don't matter… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“You don't know me from the wind you never will, you never did I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible. I've seen the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“This is it I’m not coming after you I’m going to lie down for half an hour This is it I’m not going down… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Blessed are you, embrace of the falling, foundation of the light, master of the human accident.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image