Wow! So many rich details and insights here, and appreciation for this musician.
I love this: "Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything" and your addition, "That's how the light gets in." And that reminds me of The Hollies song, "Crusader: - *All is dark, the moat is dry, shadows fall, the roof lets in the sky; all these memories go 'round in my head of the life I have led; Minstrels play familiar melodies, and once more, the past comes back to me" - thank God for the minstrels. You and Leonard Cohen. :)