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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don’t understand people who get up at 9 o’clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

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• The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

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• Sometimes you give birth to something or you’re part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It’s just so humbling.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you’re in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you’ll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

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• I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you’re actually satisfied with.

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• 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 spirit.

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• And for some reason, when I’m sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that’s actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

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

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• What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that’s there. I want to get it all out.

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Glen Hansard (33)

Birth:	21st April, 1970
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Actor, Lyricist, Musician, Singer

About

Glen Hansard was born in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland. He is an Irish singer, songwriter, actor, and musician for Irish group The Frames, and one half of folk rock duo The Swell Season. He is also known for his acting, having appeared in the BAFTA-winning film The Commitments, as well as starring in the film Once, which earned him a number of major awards, including an Academy Award for Best Song. His albums list shown below: Once(with Markéta Irglová), Rhythm and Repose, Drive All Night, Didn't He Ramble(Nominations: Grammy Award for Best Folk Album), and A Season On The Line.

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