On Leonard Cohen's Writing

I wouldn't possibly begin to tell you what I think he wrote, because that changes, so all I will say is that like the Bible or the Talmud, great lines have an endurance, no matter what position you take when you open the book. And I think that he studied that, and he began over time to understand what it was that made a phrase enter this heart. So that's the crucial issue there, the words actually do get under your skin, for very good reason. He's a genius that way. And so, you know, today they mean this, today they look like that, maybe it's that, and that's great. It's like a diamond, it depends on which side you look at it.

Jennifer Warnes