“The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of th...” — Leonard Cohen Quote

“The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.”

“How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of human flesh, the wife's cunt.”

“Bind me to your will, bind me with these threads of sorrow, and gather me out of the afternoon where I have torn my soul on twenty monstrous altars, offering all things but myself.”

“I'm a person who values excellence, freedom and liberation.”

“Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.”

“There are no shortcuts to true excellence.”