Glen Hansard Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Glen Hansard

  Song, Writing, People

• 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.

  Glen Hansard

  Live Life, Writing, Thinking

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

• 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 into any activities. I was writing 'IRA, Brits out' on walls all over where I grew up, but that was a false sense of Irishness.

  Glen Hansard

  Wall, Writing, Wearing Black

• 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.

  Glen Hansard

  Morning, Coffee, Writing

• 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

  Song, Writing, Hands

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