Dave Davies
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"David Russell Gordon "Dave" Davies" is an English musician, a multi-instrumentalist best known for his role as lead guitarist and vocalist for the English rock band The Kinks, which also features his brother Ray Davies.

In 2003, Davies was ranked 91st in Rolling Stone (magazine)/Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "Rolling Stone's 100 greatest guitarists of all time/100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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The book that I'm writing - it's to do with my life as a musician and writer and the spiritual side of my life.

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

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We're going to war again, another cycle. It's like a high-tech version of the Roman Empire all over again. We won't 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.

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