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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

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.

Van Morrison

Perception

Famous

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

Van Morrison

Change

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.

Van Morrison

Want

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

Van Morrison

Negative

Nostalgia

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken 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.

Van Morrison

Inspiration

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.

Van Morrison

Life

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

Van Morrison

Songs

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

Van Morrison

Sense

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

Van Morrison

Life

Struggle

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

Van Morrison

Life

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

Van Morrison

Jazz

The future is keeping you out of the present time.