Glen Hansard Quotes

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

The world of Stevie Wonder - in particular, the kind of overflowing joy that exists in every single thing I've ever heard him do, every note he sings - that is so deeply inspiring to me in every way.

I have always made music with passion, love and honesty.

If you make music with business in your head, it'll show. I make it from the heart. There's a difference.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

Songwriters tell the truth.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.

I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different sentence structure. I just hope more.

As long as the world keeps spinning, I'll keep riffing.

Music is the most amount of joy or good I can do in the world.

That's one thing I can't lose: I can't lose the realness in my music.

I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

I wanna make music that I feel proud of when I'm onstage, that I feel like I put my all into.