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Van Morrison

" I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it. "

Talk , Hate , Songs , Music , Profession

" I educated myself. To me, school was boring. "

Schools

" I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity. "

Negative , Nostalgia

" I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. "

Song

" I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game. "

Song

" I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me. "

Attention

" I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. "

Music , Irish

" I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. "

Jazz

" I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first. "

Thought , First

" I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. "

Songs