Leonard Cohen's difficult compositions
Leonard Cohen 'The Stranger Song' singer is preparing to release his 12th album, 'Old Ideas', and admitted he finds the process of writing songs difficult and time consuming.
He said: "I never had a strategy, I always felt I was kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel just trying to get a song together. I never had the sense that I was standing in front of a buffet table, with a multitude of choices.
"There are people who work from a sense of great abundance, and I'd love to be one of them, but I’m not."
77-year-old Leonard – who reportedly took around a year to write his track 'Hallelujah' – also told how he worries about losing the notebooks which he plans his compositions in.
He added: "I live in deep fear of losing a notebook. I've lost a lot of them – there were some masterpieces."
The legendarily low-voiced crooner also said his voice is actually got deeper since he gave up smoking, the opposite of what he thought it would.
He joked: "It's what happens when you give up cigarettes, contrary to public opinion. I thought my voice would rise a soprano. It's not going that direction.
"I'll start smoking again when I'm 80, I'm looking forward to that."
