Van Morrison “pretends to be any individual else” on stage and all his emotion is “acted out”.
Van Morrison has adopted a persona
The 80-year-old musician insisted he’s naturally introverted and his public picture is “completely nowhere” close to who he actually is as a result of he feels he wants to cover his actual self so as to placed on the absolute best present.
He informed The Occasions newspaper: “Search for the phrase introvert and also you’ll get me. I’m an introvert working in an extrovert world
“The individual on stage, that’s a job I’m enjoying.”
“I’m splitting myself up into two. I couldn’t do the job as myself — I’ve to faux to be any individual else.”
And requested if he is happiest on stage, he added: “No, no, no. No matter emotion is going on up there — unhappiness, anger, pleasure — I’m appearing it out.”
The Brown Eyed Woman singer has slowed down in latest months after struggling “burnout” resulting from his hectic touring schedule final yr.
He mentioned: “I bought burnout. Typically you don’t know you could have it till it’s excessive.
“Simply fatigue. You may’t do something. You simply go, ‘I’ve had sufficient.’
“Lots of people my age can’t do what they used to do. Whenever you’re 50 you suppose all the things’s doable however then that modifications. I don’t need to sit on lengthy automobile journeys, lengthy aircraft rides. I’ve been there, I’ve accomplished that.” It
However regardless of his efforts to take issues simpler, the Van admitted he’s at all times engaged on new music.
He mentioned: “I do music on a regular basis. I’m writing songs on a regular basis and I’ve at the least 100 songs I’m compiling and reducing up into varied album initiatives. However you possibly can burn out at that too.”
So as to preserve issues contemporary on stage, the veteran singer adopts jazz legend Louis Armstrong’s strategy, explaining he “by no means sang a tune the identical means twice”.
He added: “That type of caught with me. That’s completely proper. That’s easy methods to preserve it attention-grabbing, as a result of I can’t preserve singing the identical songs the identical means. It’s boring.”
In the meantime, the Domino singer “would not perceive” how Spotify boss Daniel Ek was in a position to persuade file corporations to associate with his imaginative and prescient for streaming music.
He mentioned: “I don’t perceive why it was really easy for the man to resolve he was going to do that after which all of the file corporations went together with it. I do know you want thousands and thousands of streams to get something.”
