Van: I have to evolve, otherwise I don't want to do it. I'm not interested
Van: I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
Van: I don't really practice. I don't really play enough. I've been caught up in a lot of business stuff.
Van: I don't know why they bother writing about me. I guess because I'm a name.
Van: I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
Van: I can't imagine what it's like, coming in to do this now. In my wildest dreams I couldn't imagine what it's like. It's a Big Brother world.
Van: Hearing the blues changed my life.
Van: Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
Van: Donegan is a great singer. He's even better now than he was then
Van: Bobby Scott thought soul music came from Ireland and Scotland, and this kind of stuck in my head.
Van: Albums are not the whole picture. You really need to go to loads of gigs to get the whole picture. That's really what it's about.
Van: I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
Van: I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Before becoming a successful musician, Morrison had a job as a window cleaner.
In 2000, Morrison ranked number 25 on American cable music channel VH1's list of its 100 greatest artists of rock and roll.
Morrison is widely considered one of the most unusual and influential vocalists in the history of rock and roll.
His most recent album Magic Time was released on his own Exile Music Recordings label in May 2005. With songs such as Stranded the title track, Magic Time, Celtic New Year and Gypsy in my Soul
In 2002, Van Morrison returned to Polydor Records and released his new album Down The Road. The album featured 13 brand new songs alongside a unique version of Georgia On My Mind and Evening Shadows an Acker Bilk instrumental to which Van added his own lyrical magic.
In 1988 Van joined with The Chieftains to do the ablum Irish Heartbeat.
In 1967 Van began his solo career in New York where he recorded an LP titled Blowin' Your Mind.
As a teenager Van played guitar, sax and harmonica with a series of local Irish showbands, skiffle and rock'n'roll groups.
Van's mother was a singer, while his father ardently collected classic American jazz and blues recordings.
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