Leonard Cohen once recounted a story to The New Yorker editor David Remnick about a drive he took with Bob Dylan. During their trip, Dylan recalled a time another famous songwriter had once told him, “Bob, you’re Number 1, but I’m Number 2.” Dylan turned to Cohen and said, “As far as I’m concerned, Leonard, you’re Number 1. It was the kind of praise Cohen could accept from the legendary songwriter he had been compared to throughout his career. Leonard Cohen took everything that was broken, his voice, his losses, his doubts, his years away, and somehow made it beautiful.