Glen Hansard

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

— Glen Hansard

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

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

— Glen Hansard

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and…

— Glen Hansard

I just didn't realize, being a young person, that if you sign up to make a film, a certain portion of your…

— Glen Hansard

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

— Glen Hansard

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really…

— Glen Hansard

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

— Glen Hansard

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

— 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…

— Glen Hansard

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand…

— Glen Hansard

I think inside every rock journalist, there's somebody who wishes they had the courage to live the life that they're not, and…

— Glen Hansard

There's this unspoken thing that you have to wear a tux and some kind of nice dress. There are all these ethical…

— Glen Hansard

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

— Glen Hansard

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up…

— Glen Hansard

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And…

— Glen Hansard

I think it's very interesting, people who can't stand people who whinge and whine. It seems almost like a class issue. Because…

— Glen Hansard

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find…

— Glen Hansard

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes…

— Glen Hansard

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

— 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…

— Glen Hansard

I grew up wearing black arm-bands when the hunger strikers died. I went on those marches. I grew up basically a Provo,…

— Glen Hansard

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can…

— Glen Hansard

Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't…

— Glen Hansard