“ One time I was hanging out with Leonard Cohen and his daughter [Lorca Cohen]. She was talking about this child she had known as a baby who she hadn’t seen for a few years and how he was now grown up, and she said to her dad: ‘You know, it’s pretty amazing watching how the baby became a person.’ Leonard looked at her and replied very dryly, as only he could: ‘You know, it’s pretty much the only amazing thing there is.’” [Laughs loudly] It’s clearly not a necessity for everyone, but I feel, you know, I shouldn’t deny myself all that amazement…
— Rufus Wainwright explaining how a comment by Leonard Cohen stimulated his own paternal longings. From L’Œil de la Médiathèque > ‘I was looking right into her face when my mother died’
