Quotes By 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.

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

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.

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

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

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.

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.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.