Quotes by Dave Davies

“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. Its just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.”

“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.”

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

“Were going to war again, another cycle. Its like a high-tech version of the Roman Empire all over again. We wont break these cycles until we start going inside and questioning our own selves - we keep looking outside for answers, when really the solution and the answers are inside us all.”

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

“I think people are turning inward more now cause the worlds 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 thats going crazy? Its a very important time.”

“People that have had genuine abduction experiences that Ive met that seem very genuine to me, but theyre just confused about why it happened. Ive met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but theres a lot of crazy people out there.”

“The book that Im writing - its to do with my life as a musician and writer and the spiritual side of my life.”

“I dont like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.”

“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.”

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

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 well ever have... the earth and nature.

Good rock music always tends to be around.

I wasnt a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.