Author: Glen Hansard

Quotes

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

- Glen Hansard

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

- Glen Hansard

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.

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.

- Glen Hansard

I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.

I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.

- Glen Hansard

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

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

- Glen Hansard

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.

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.

- Glen Hansard

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

- Glen Hansard

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.

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.

- Glen Hansard

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

- Glen Hansard

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