"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. "

Genius poet/singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen is devastated. Financially, that is.

In a strange story that pits Buddhist against Buddhist, 70-year old Cohen is suing his longtime manager and finacial adviser Neal Greenberg for gross mismanagement of funds.

Cohen discovered last fall that his retirement funds, which he had thought amounted to more than $5 million (all figures U.S.), had been reduced to $150,000, he wasn't so sanguine.

"I was devastated," Cohen says. "You know, God gave me a strong inner core, so I wasn't shattered. But I was deeply concerned."