Leonard cohen arada şunları diyor;
"I have no program, I have no five-year plan. … It doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have one! I just
move from hotel to hotel, and from bar to bar, and by the grace of the One above occasionally a song comes, and I remember sitting at this particularly obnoxious Polynesian restaurant where they served a kind of coconut drink that was particularly lethal and sinister which contained no alcohol but a certain chemical that demoralized you entirely. And I remember writing on one of their very badly designed napkins, “I remember you well at the Chelsea Hotel…”
I remember you well adlı parçanın sözlerini ve aslında parçanın adandığı şarkıcının janis joplin olduğuna dair tevatürü şu linkten okuyabilirsiniz;
http://www.leonardcohen-prologues.com/chelsea_hotel.htm