"I like life on the road,” says Leonard Cohen, as he releases his Popular Problems album. “It’s a lot easier than civilian life, you kind of feel like you’re in a motorcycle gang.”
Cohen returned to touring in 2008 after he was embezzled by his former manager who was sentenced to prison in 2012. “I had to go back on the road: I was broke,” he tells The Telegraph. “But it renewed my interest in the whole enterprise. Besides, this and washing dishes are the only things that I really know how to do.”
The singer/songwriter will mark his 80th birthday tomorrow (Sept 21) quietly. “One of the charitable realities of my family life is that we hardly celebrate holidays or birthdays or anniversaries, so everybody’s kind of let off the hook. I think it will just go by like any other day.”
