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" Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born. "

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" I can't stand tribute bands. It's nice, bless 'em, but it's not right. They can't capture the right spirit. You never see a tribute comedian, a tribute Les Dawson. "

Dave Davies

Capture

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Stand

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Exmoor and Dartmoor are sacred, magical places. You find a truer side of yourself there. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. "

Dave Davies

Music

Family

" 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 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. "

Dave Davies

Always

House

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

" I think that things happen for a reason. "

" 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. "

Dave Davies

Think

Life

" 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. "

Dave Davies

Thought

Problems

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "