"If you were to tell me that playing this song as a cover is totally cliche, I'd tell you so is breathing," said Amanda Palmer, singer with the local punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls.

Love her! Love this! I will be using it everytime someone tells me something I love unabashedly is cliche.

"The cool thing is, a guy like Leonard Cohen is not a young man. He's never been particularly commercially successful as a musician. If this is going to make him a very comfortable old man, great for him."

This too

He's never been particularly commercially successful as a musician.

And he got completely ripped off by his manager.

Breathing isn't cliche. I don't get that. (I get just playing something because you like it and to hell with what people will think, of course.)

Breathing isn't cliche. I don't get that.

I think that's Amanda's point. Just because something is done all the time, that doesn't you should stop doing it.

It says that there are people who hadn't heard it before it was on AI this week.

Oh, god. Is that why Jeff Buckley's cover of "Hallelujah" was the #1 song on iTunes this week?

Shrift: In the Globe article it says that the AI judges specifically mentioned Buckley's version.

I should just be happy that they're listening to Buckley at all, huh.

I think that's Amanda's point. Just because something is done all the time, that doesn't you should stop doing it.

Yes. Oh good god, yes. She's right.

I think that's Amanda's point. Just because something is done all the time, that doesn't you should stop doing it.

Well, yeah, I get that. But breathing is still not a cliche.

Well, yeah, I get that. But breathing is still not a cliche.

And neither is playing "Hallelujah", is her point.