I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn’t mean anything to me. – Van Morrison
I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time. – Van Morrison
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
I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good. – Van Morrison
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs. – Van Morrison
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing. – Van Morrison
I’ve never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I’ve felt like howling at the moon a lot of times! – Van Morrison
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn’t there before that. – Van Morrison
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
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. – Van Morrison
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. – Van Morrison
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. – Van Morrison
I don’t feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That’s what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it. – Van Morrison
My thinking musically has always been more advanced – it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now. – Van Morrison
I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern. – Van Morrison
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. – Van Morrison
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down. – Van Morrison
