Eilish

“I had wonderful love but I did not give back wonderful love, I was unable to reply to their love. Because I was obsessed with some fictional sense of separation, I couldn't touch the thing that was offered to me,and it was offered to me everywhere.”
― Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

“I care about strangers when they're abstractions but feel almost nothing when they are literally in front of me. They seem like unnamed characters in a poorly written novel about myself, which was poorly written by me.”
― Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

“You finish listening to a song of Leonard's and you know he's said everything he had to say, he didn't let the song go till he was done with it.”
― Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

“What I mean by depression isn't just the blues, it's not just like a hangover from the weekend,or the girl didn't show up or something like that" said Leonard describing the paralyzing darkness and anxiety he experienced. "It's kind of a mental violence that stops you functioning from one moment from the next" Leonard took the spending "a lot of time alone. Dying." He said "letting myself slowly die”
― Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen