New Exclusive Van Interview In The Word

The Word magazine has a new 5 page interview with Van.

Excerpts from interview:

On the creative process:
You've got this stuff running through your head all the time. Sometimes you just want to turn it off. It can be annoying to have to go and get a paper an write it all down.

These thoughts, these half dreams, these bits and pieces that people might say. it can be so annoying that sometimes you just want it to go away.

On Being A Rock Star:
Being famous is f*****g hard work. It's not a f*****g privileged position.

On Writing New Songs:
It gets harder not easier as you get older.. Iwrite songs now people don't
relate to.

On Radio:
Most of the stuff on the radio is crap pop music that I don't want to listen to.

On iPods:
Why would I need one. I've been listening to music all my life without one.

Van revealed how his best albums would have been much better if he hadn't
been so broke when he first recorded them in the 1960's. He explained 'there was no money coming through to do what I really wanted to do. I was totally broke and I just couldn't present my material in the way that I wanted.'

(Thanks To Brian In Belfast)