Leonard Cohen Responds to Fans’ Questions…Part 6
Are there any examples of good or healthy sexual relationships in the Bible?
P.R. (Cleveland, OH)The patriarchs and their wives stand as shining examples of possible human marriages. The love of Jesus for Mary Magdalene continues to inspire me.
Is loneliness necessarily a sad thing?
M.C. (Atlanta, GA)Yes, it is designed to be that way.
Leonard Cohen responding to fans’ questions in “The Determinator,” Details, July 1993.
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Why There Ain’t No Cure for Love Per Leonard Cohen
Do you still fall in love easily?
“Oh, I fall in love all the time. I remember walking with Nico and I said, ‘Do you think Joan of Arc fell in love?’ and she said, ‘All the time Leonard. All the time’. I feel my heart going out 100 times a day.”
Yet when you’re in love, you still always feel trapped?
“I think it’s true that nobody can stand the distress of isolation and loneliness, yet very few can support the vertigo of surrender, of losing yourself, that’s why the new single’s called ‘There Ain’t No Cure For Love’, because nobody can sustain surrender for a very long time and nobody can stand the distance either.
Leonard Cohen as told to Kris Kirk in “As a New Generation Discovers Leonard Cohen’s Dark Humour, Kris Kirk Ruffles the Great Man’s Back Pages,” Poetry Commotion, June 18, 1988.
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Leonard Cohen Responds to Fans’ Questions…Part 5
How can you tell if you’re in love?
C.H. (Fort Lauderdale, FL)You dissolve your strategy for the other.
Why is having an orgasm so exhilarating?
N.P. (Portland, OR)You stop thinking about yourself.
How can I remain friends with my former lover?
R.A. (Chicago, IL)Move to another country.
Leonard Cohen responding to fans’ questions in “The Determinator,” Details, July 1993.
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Leonard Cohen Responds to Fans’ Questions…Part 4
Is it possible to be madly in love with more than one person at a time?
M.B. (San Jose, Costa Rica)It is possible to be in love with more than one person at a time but not “madly in love.”
Is honesty always the best policy?
G.W. (Hartford, CT)In my case, yes. In your case, rarely.
Leonard Cohen responding to fans’ questions in “The Determinator,” Details, July 1993.
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Leonard Cohen Responds to Fans’ Questions…Part 2
Is there a difference between love and obesession?
F.S. (Phoenix, AZ)It is the same difference between the Sermon on the Mount and the Crucifixion.
What do men really want?
B.B. (Houston, TX)A square deal.
Leonard Cohen responding to fans’ questions in “The Determinator,” Details, July 1993
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Leonard Cohen’s View on Love
TS: Has you view of romance changed over the past twenty years, since you embarked on your songwriting career?
LC: Well, I think that it changes naturally, but I think that the position I took in some of those early songs is not so far from the position I take now.
TS: Which is?
LC: That the kind of surrender that is involved with love means that you have to take a wound also.
TS: Do you think that it’s a typical growth process, or that it’s more your own?
LC: I can’t believe that my predicament is unique.
Leonard Cohen in an interview with Tom Schnabel from the book Stolen Moments, 1988.
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