The five songs that inspired Glen Hansard the most: “Teaching me how to sing”If one thing is clear when it comes to Glen Hansard, it’s that we’ll never see someone of his folk-ish, earthly, ethereal kind again. Hansard was a powerhouse, a visionary, and a magnet to music, but above all else, a humble human. “It was a song that changed the direction of my life at the time, and so in terms of pivotal songs in one’s life, it was an important one to include,” he later explained. But Hansard was not a man caught up just in the prism of his own world. Hansard picked ‘Hungry for Your Love’ as the cream of the crop, but really, there could have been countless options from that songbook.