Leonard will say, ‘Look at the shreds of my heart; you pulled it out with a pair of prongs.’ … He’s acknowledging that the whole act of living contains immense amounts of sorrow and hopelessness and despair, and also passion and high hopes and deep and eternal love. His complex lyrics speak of complex mixtures of God and sex and spirituality and myth and forgiveness and lostness.

Jennifer Warnes

Leonard Cohen, Pain Free by Sheldon Teitelbaum. Los Angeles Times: April 5, 1992.

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 Dec 2, 2015.