Dave Davies

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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