Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
Van MorrisonIt's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.
Van MorrisonWhat I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.
Van MorrisonWhat 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 Morrison