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" I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person. "

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" Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable. "

" 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. "

" It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes. "

" I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thing that I need to help me grow. "

" 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. "

" I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. "

" People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there. "

" 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. "

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

" As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy. "

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

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

" A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that. "

" We've always had our hardcore fans. But the general public has a love-hate thing about the 'Kinks.' It always leaves people with a question mark on their heads. "

" You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket. "

" I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time. "

" I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs. "

" 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. "

" I think that things happen for a reason. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing. "

" 'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes. "

" You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website. "

" 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. "

" Good rock music always tends to be around. "

" I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young. "

" All good art, to me, is uncertainty. "

" I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all. "