Glen Hansard Life Quotations

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.

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.

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.

I think inside every rock journalist, there's somebody who wishes they had the courage to live the life that they're not, and that they're writing about. But at the same time, inside every songwriter, I guess there's a wish for happiness.