Van Morrison

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

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

“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'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.”

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

“The future is keeping you out of the present time.”

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

“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.”