A strange personal story about Leonard Cohen:
When I was younger, I went to Montreal a couple times on vacation with my family. For some reason, I always get this weird feeling in Montreal, sort of a haunted, ancient feeling--that's the best way I can describe it. I had talked to my father about that. Of course, he didn't know what the hell I was talking about. A few years later, I got into Leonard Cohen's music. Some of those songs from the early albums gave me the same strange feeling. I thought it was really weird and kind of unmistakeably the same feeling. I don't know why, but it took me another couple years to discover that Cohen grew up in Montreal.