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. Glen Hansard actbuskdifficult Change image and share on social
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 choosedeepearth Change image and share on social
The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write. Glen Hansard appointmentcallclock Change image and share on social
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 albumcollectiondecision Change image and share on social
Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling. Glen Hansard birthfeelgive Change image and share on social
Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet. Glen Hansard artistdefaulthappiness share on social
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 approvalfeltgood Change image and share on social
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. Glen Hansard arrestartbusk share on social
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 braindistanceimagination Change image and share on social
