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Leonard Cohen: Porridge? Lozenge? Syringe?

Adrian Deevoy, Q, 1991

He's been a poet and songwriter for more than 40 years, but Leonard Cohen still can't find a rhyme for 'orange'. "It drives you mad," he tells Adrian Deevoy. "Before you know it, you're crawling across the carpet in your underwear."

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