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When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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