Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up. Glen Hansard Read Quote
I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative. Glen Hansard Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Glen Hansard Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs. Glen Hansard Read Quote
