This is what Glen Hansard told me, sitting on the beach in Santa Monica many, many years ago. It wasn’t necessarily their style of music, but Hansard, Irglová, and Carney recognized the passion in the streetside crooner. After John Travolta presented the pair with the award, Hansard told the audience: “We never thought we’d come into a room like this and be in front of you people.” “They were going to let you say something,” Stewart told Irglová. “It’s an amazing life being a street musician,” Hansard told me that day in Santa Monica.