Quotes By Van Morrison

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

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 think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

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.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

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

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

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.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.