Zitat des Tages von Glen Hansard:
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.
What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.
I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.
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 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.
There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.
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.
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.
And I've always loved playing solo.
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.
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.
I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.
My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.
Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.
You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.