76 Quotes by Glen Hansard

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on.

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

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

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

You keep sending out these little paper boats, and hope that someday one will come back laden with gold.

I don't particularly put myself in a bad place just so that I can write. It's not like that at all. I try to live a good life and some of the songs are reflective of that too. I certainly wouldn't describe a lot of the songs as being angry.