Top 53 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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 learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.