I did 15 or 20 concerts [in 1967], but I had used up the tiny energy I’d recovered and that really wiped me out. I lost all sense of the career as writer, the career as poet. I wasn’t the hero of my legend. I was completely empty – and out of that came songs that were very intimate & very personal.

 

Leonard Cohen

 

From Poet Writer Singer Lover Cohen by Paul Grescoe. Canadian Magazine: February 10, 1968.

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 Apr 10, 2014 at DrHGuy.com, a predecessor of Cohencentric.