Glen Hansard

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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

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. ”

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

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown. ”

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