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" When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life. "

" 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. "

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

" How could I not love my own brother? I just can't stand to be with him. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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