- Leonard Cohen: You look around and you see a world that is impenetrable, that cannot be made sense of. You either raise your fist or you say "Hallelujah.' I try to do both.
- Nancy Bacal: I remember once I was musing on purgatory, and I was fearful of it. And he said: "This is purgatory." And he meant the whole scene-what we're living. And at the same time, he would say "What an amazing experiment this is."
- Leonard Cohen: Of course, I was happy that the song was being used. But I think people ought to stop singing it for a little while.
- [smiles]