Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

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  As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

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  I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I

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  I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

• Van Morrison:

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

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

• Van Morrison:

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

• Van Morrison:

  I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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  I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

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  I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

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