Dave Davies

“What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.”

“I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.”

“Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune.”

“Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something.”

“The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.”

“Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.”

“I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.”

“We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.”

“Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.”

“My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.”

“We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.”

“I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.”

“Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.”

“I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When he had parties, my sisters always played piano, and my dad played banjo.”

“A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It's not easy listening. It's not even comfortable to listen to.”

“I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.”

“All good art, to me, is uncertainty.”

“You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.”

“My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.”

“I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.”