I have never shunned success. I have always tried to write hits that people would find enjoyable. My record company and I have an agreeable relationship; I sell enough records to keep them happy but few enough so that they don’t worry about the next one. If anything, I would have liked for them to treat me more as a commodity than an artist because I worry about the artist part enough for both of us.

 

Leonard Cohen

 

From The Prophet of Love Looks into the Abyss: A Conversation with Leonard Cohen by Thom Jurek (Los Angeles Reader, August 27, 1993).

I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This entry was originally posted Aug 30, 2018.