Via Richard Wells, there is a link to a recent talk with Leonard Cohen. He seems to always manage to give a great interview. I’d like to see him on Oprah.

“I am not interested in dreams. I don’t remember them. I am not terribly interested in my opinions. I can trot them out, for courtesy’s sake, in a conversation, but I am not terribly interested in them.

“Generally, very, very close attention to the inner life paralyses activity. I think you have to have a passing interest in it, but the place that work comes from somehow has to bypass the conceptual introspective faculty, because it can get lost if you are really asking the question: ‘Why am I doing this?’

“The conceptual system is generally imposed by fashionable therapeutic establishments: ‘You should examine your relationship with your parents.’ Why? They did their best. I mean, why should that be the standard? I have never been interested in those techniques, those tools, for analysis, for self-analysis.”

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