So here he is, his gray-green eyes welcoming me with quiet grace into his modest Central Los Angeles home on a sunny afternoon. Not tall, he’s dressed as usual in a neat black suit with button-down shirt and a most elegant narrow tie; he wears no socks with his black shoes. His gray hair is short but present. He hasn’t smoked for five years, so his voice has regained much of its low clarity. At 71, one of music’s foremost poets and poetry’s foremost musicians looks calm and healthy. He pours us each a Beck’s Pilsner, and when we’re finished with those he pours some more.
From Having Lunch With Leonard Cohen by Jon Wilde, Sabotage Times. Dec 3, 2015 (the quote itself is taken from a 1988 interview).
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