Leonard Cohen Interview (1980): CBC 'Authors' with Patrick Watson 

I never tire of Leonard Cohen's simple straightforward truth.

"we do have an appetite to worship and I think it's appropriate that we find each other the mystery" wow

This man named Cohen has touched the lives of millions of people!

I have loved Leonard Cohen forever, a most unique and beautiful soul. Thank you for sharing. RIP Leonard.

Has there ever been a more honest man?Thankyou for this interview.

love Leonard... ..then and now...his passing is a big loss to all of us

i always heard it would be bad to meet your hero's but i think i could be right in saying that this man ..Leonard Cohen , would leave you feeling as though you could almost cry when its time to go..

My greatest HERO. LOVE this guy and his music.❤❤

Leonard here and Leonard at the last two decades are drastic… it shows in his speaking and in his eyes and softening of his face. I’m so happy to know he found peace in the end. LC in London in 2008-2009 was such a treasure. Austin City Limits was another great small concert. ❤🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻❤️

His songs are like jewels his voice is like honey 🍯

“I don’t want to move around much anymore - but that’s because I want to try something big, and I need stable surroundings to be able to really take flight.” That's hard won artistic experience there. It's take me 25 years for me to realise that myself.

It's always a pleasure to listen to Leonard's soothing voice..discussing such deep matters whilst holding a somewhat calming demeanour. It almost makes you feel reassured in a sense, hearing somebody talk so simply about things but staying poetically meaningful as well. It sustains the authenticity of honest emotion. It was his mother tongue after all. Thank you for uploading this rare treasure.

Im glad to hear that Cohen was defending the sacrament of marriage , emphasizing matrimony and the family unit as a pillar of society

“Events rush in too quickly for me to have a program about it” ~ LC was a person who slowly over time became more open to many aspects of what life had to offer. I believe that he had no artistic program to follow but rather developed his own groove in response to the life he had personally experienced.

Interviewer was spot on, listening an staying with Leonard. Thoughtful with the answers he got. Excellent camerawork bringing it all together in soft cohesiveness. Like very much the interviewers smiles about his subject showing how he liked his man. The cigarette holder is fun. Hadnt known he was such a cute guy back in the day. Do remember well listening to his early stuff in the wonderous 60s while at UC Berkeley reveling in all of what we had then.

Oh! I so enjoyed listening to this conversation. It’s like we get a glimpse into Leonard’s mind heart & soul - why he fashions his lyrics and poems the way he does. And to be able to get really lost in his eyes! Yes! Thank you so much for this upload! ❤❤❤

god, he just has to be the love of my life

Leonard, you break my heart in the eternal place

His thoughts became so much more profound as he aged.

What a wonderful conversation! Patrick Watson is a contemporary of Leonard's, and a writer, actor, and more himself. He asks penetrating questions, LISTENS to Leonard's responses, and obviously appreciates Leonard's work. Very enlightening! Leonard might have said "true." Thank you, ALBIAS, for finding this and sharing it with us!

It's seems more like an interrogation to me than an interview but Leonard is on top of things with honesty and humility.

Un Léonard Cohen stressé par l'interview mais déjà cette présence puissante et humble à à la fois peut-être parce que conscient de sa fragilité et mal à l'aise avec les masques... We love him so much...

ALBIAS, Thank you for all the fascinating Cohen uploads!

Leonard appears more remote, intense, unsure, and self protective here than in his late in life interviews where he appears humourous, more self accepting and content. Im glad he was more comfortable in his skin as he aged. Perhaps he used less drugs and alcohol later in life.

Leonard is young and still seeking ... for this moment, which is all there is, as you all-ready know

Cohen respects, not just tolerates this man.

Thank you for uploading this real TREASURE!

besides being profound he is also a beautiful man. he practically has all the gifts: persuasive voice, beauty and intelligence. besides being very sexy. lucky and beloved man

Hes such an inspiration

memorable conversation!

I really wish I grew up with this era of the CBC

I love Leonard.

I so love Leonard Cohen.........

20:20 - "Yeah..." - Priceless!!

Thank you gratefully for uploading this! What a guy! He inspires me so

This video has that soft analog tv sound I love for interviews.

The Life of the Appetite✨

Notice Patrick says "Girls" and Leonard says "Women"? God I miss him!

Así son las buenas entrevistas. Hoy día no se profundiza, no se remueve las entrañas, hoy día todo por el show y el reality-show.

the LIGHT in his eyes tells me all I need to know. God was there, even though he didn't fully obey Him. Once a Cohen, always a Cohen. Set apart for God. No wonder he touched many lives...it was his Heavenly Job here on this "broken hallelujah" of a planet... ...we call earth.

The life of the appetite

Best interview of Lennie I’ve heard. Who is this man who’s asking the questions?

best interviewer.

Who if not Leonard Cohen could have talked about prose poems by Charles Pierre Baudelaire.....

''I was born in a suit.'' There are many kinds of suits. The suit one dawns at birth earned from original sin. The ongoing lawsuit battle of overcoming that sin to win freedom from it's capturing oppressions. The suit of cards one is dealt and are holding from the drawn cards of life. The pursuit of happiness one has drawn believing they are free. It can mean many things other than Armani or Sears Sucker. ~Just another one of those many ones of we who's awaiting... His Just Return to set us free.

15:40 just bookmarking so I can go back to this

Great hair! Sad eyes :(

I love listening to him. Amazing artist! Check out my interpretation of "Everybody Knows" on my music page

He's depressed here. You can see it in his face.

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This interviewer seems to make a lot of assumptions about Leonard that may or may not be true.

He looks like Dustin Hoffman!

You just kinda hang on to listen to his next word

Interviewer has aged badly, Leonard is timeless.

Thoughtful & insightful but Cohen seems always to be waiting for something less technical, more visceral.

5:30 TS Elliott.. ‘This Marriage ✨

Surely he isn't 44 in 1980, as suggested. My dad was also born in 1934 and he was 44 when I was born on Feb 9th (edit:) 1978 (two years and a day before this broadcast).

Leoanrd Cohen should’ve just said: “what are you on about?"

What artist today 019 can give you a verbal concert such as this one.

Say hello to my little friend

Sadness in these grey eyes

8:28

He looks a little like Al Pacino

I hate how his hair is perfect and it looks like all he has to do is wake up and it’s good.

젊었을때모습더미남혛

He looks like Anthony bordain

I don’t care for this set up. Notice that the interviewer is sitting slightly above Leonard as you would in an office setting with a client. “ Always make sure you sit slightly higher then the client for a position of power.”

Why do they have that thing that holds the cigarette?

Is he stoned here?

i think he's stoned

Holy shit, he looks like Adam Sandler

I love him but he is like Nick Cave in that he gets caught up too much in judeo-Christian nonsense. You can add Richard Thompson and others to that list. It’s so silly. There’s no one in the sky watching us. Learn about evolution and stuff. Damn.

Evil

I don’t like this interviewer.

Patrick Watson is an insufferable try hard.

this is dull, he really grew up after this

My belief is that his songs contain pure evil. Just listen to the words.