Quotes By Van Morrison

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.