Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

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

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.

Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you're feeling good When you're with the one you love.

If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.

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.

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.

Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside you, Beside you, child.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold.

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.

My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.

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.