Van Morrison

“I don't think you should be singing songs that you've outgrown.”

“The rock and roll hall of fame is a joke.”

“I'm a performer. I've been performing since I was a teenager.”

“You don't know what you're going to get. That's the magic.”

“A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me.”

“Jazz and blues are my first loves.”

“My music is not for the masses. It's for the people who want to listen.”

“I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out in my music.”

“The music should speak for itself.”

“For me, it's a spiritual thing. That's the way I look at it.”

“I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings about anything.”

“Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul.”

“The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation with the person who's in my head.”

“It's a journey. You never arrive.”

“I'm not a rock star. I'm a singer-songwriter.”

“I get very little inspiration from anything that's happening in the music business.”

“I dig my own trenches.”

“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”

“I think the thing about the records is that they're a snapshot of a period of time.”

“Basically, I'm a blues singer. That's it.”