• Interviewer: Does something bother you? How can you write poetry if you are not bothered by something?
  • Leonard Cohen: When I get up in the morning... my real concern is to discover whether I'm in a state of grace. And if I make that investigation, and I discover that I am not in a state of grace, I try to go [back] to bed.
  • Interviewer: What do you mean by a state of grace?
  • Leonard Cohen: A state of grace is that kind of balance with which you ride the chaos that you find around you. It's not a matter of resolving the chaos--because there's something arrogant and warlike about putting the world in order--but having a kind of escape ski down over a hill, just going through the contours of the hill.
  • Interviewer: Oh, you have lost me!
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