I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.
BBC Radio 1FM Interveiw, 1994.
![I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself,](http://cdn.myquotes.org/images/leonard-cohen/i-feel-that-you-know-the-enormous-luck-ive-had-in-being-able-to-make-a-living-and-to-never.jpg)