When Leonard Cohen came to my door in 1966, he was so brilliant and a wonderful conversationalist. He said, “I can’t sing, I can’t play the guitar and I don’t know if this is a song.” Then he sang me The Stranger Song, Dress Rehearsal Rag and Suzanne. I said, “Leonard, these are songs and I’m recording at least two of them immediately”, which I did. The next spring I took him to this big fundraiser and said...