Van Morrison

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

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

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.

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.