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.
Van MorrisonIt was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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 MorrisonYou are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what those acts are doing. There's no point in hearing what's going on. The only thing that's going on is what's been going forever. It's just that some people dig that bag and some people dig the other bag.
Van MorrisonYou have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.
Van Morrison