Glen Hansard Quotes & Sayings

“You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.”

“I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.”

“If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.”

“The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.”

“Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.”

“My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.”

“A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.”

“You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.”

“In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.”

“I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.”