Van Morrison quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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