A year ago.. or at least I think it was a year ago. I stumbled on this video interview with Leonard Cohen. He made me think about something that I reflected on before and totally agree with, that of making art in-spite of suffering and not by being fueled by it.

I think this is an important point for all artists who believe that they need to live a self-destructive life before they can make good art. It's a cliche. Funny how just today, I stumbled on Jeff Tweedy (below) saying the same thing!

Start listening to leonard's clip from 3:17.