Girls Dreams

<p>Earlier this week, <a href="http://ift.tt/2djArop New Yorker</i> ran a brilliant profile on Leonard Cohen</a>​. Written by editor David Remnick after a number of interviews with Cohen in his Los Angeles home, it showed a man nearing the end, "getting [his] house in order." He said that he was "ready to die."</p><p>A few days on, with his 14th studio album, <i>​You Want It Darker​</i> now streaming <a href="http://ift.tt/2edhlq3; target="_blank">online</a>​ ahead of its October 21 release, Cohen seems to feel more alive than ever. <i>Billboard</i> <a href="http://ift.tt/2djy6Kd; target="_blank">report</a>​ that, at a listening session for the new record, Cohen was asked how he was feeling. "I said I was ready to die recently," he responded. "And I think I was exaggerating. I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever" </p><p>According to <i>Billboard</i>, the session came to an end with Cohen telling the audience, "I hope we can do this again. I intend to stick around until 120."</p><p>The 82-year-old was also asked about Bob Dylan's odd, charming analysis of Cohen's music in the <i>New Yorker</i> piece. And though Cohen resisted responding directly to Dylan, he did offer some thoughts on his contemporary's Nobel Prize. He believes, simply, that it "is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain."</p><p>It's all very charming, really. Cohen talks about the possibility of new music and living for another four decades and all of a sudden a little of that darkness has lifted. I'll take it. </p><p><i>​Lead image via Leonard Cohen on <a href="http://ift.tt/2edjvpB; target="_blank">Facebook</a>​.<br>​​</i><br><i>​Follow Noisey on <a href="http://twitter.com/noiseymusic" target="_blank">Twitter</a>​.​</i></p><p>​</p><p>​</p>

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