DAVE DAVIES

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 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'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.

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