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 ab…

- 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 sing it for the rest of your life.

- 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 rules, but I'm sure if you came to t…

- Glen Hansard

We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be dece…

- Glen Hansard

Certain songs have a life, and certain songs don't. A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing…

- 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 no poetry in that.

- 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 brain gets to sort of some…

- Glen Hansard

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 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, though I never obviously got i…

- Glen Hansard