Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On
Leonard Cohen
"That happened at a very curious time in my life because I was at a very low point, my family was breaking up, I was living in Los Angeles which was a foreign city to me, and I'd lost control, as I say, of my family, of my work, and my life, and it was a very very dark period ... so you were slipping over bullets, and you were biting into revolvers in your hamburger."
http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/bbctrans.htm
Cohen's comments about Phil Spector have become increasingly embellished over the years. See one of Cohen's original interviews re. working with Phil Spector - Stephen Holden, Rolling Stone 1978.
"I say these things not to hurt him. Incidentally, beyond all this, I liked him. Just man to man he's delightful, and with children he's very kind. But I would also like him to pick up ROLLING STONE one day and see that he was urged to reconsider his approach to recording by a man who knows him well and who has suffered because of his failure to allow things to breathe."
http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/rs012678.htm
NOTE: Leonard Cohen did not and does not know Phil Spector well. He worked with him for approximately 3 weeks in 1977. Phil Spector found the entire ordeal utterly depressing.
