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Van Morrison

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

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Van Morrison wishes to reside in Ireland without being judged or treated differently because of his fame. He feels misunderstood because people only see him as a celebrity, not as the person he was before becoming well-known.

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