What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.
Van MorrisonWhen you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.
Van MorrisonSometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.
Van MorrisonI never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Van MorrisonIf I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?
Van Morrison