Quotes from Alan Light

She may have discovered how to solve the problem of aviation in music. What makes an aviator what he is? An aviator is a person who deals with getting heavier-than-air objects off the ground. She could do that, musically and emotionally. She could take a feeling and actually lift it off the ground, and it would stay there.

it's a hymn of the heretic, a piyut [liturgical poem] of a modern, doubtful person.

It's a rather joyous song," Cohen said when Various Positions was released. "I like very much the last verse—'And even though it all went wrong, / I'll stand before the Lord of Song / with nothing on my lips but Hallelujah!