Quotes from Ray Davies

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

The tax man's taken all my doughAnd left me in my stately home,Lazing on a sunny afternoon.

Girls will be boys and boys will be girlsIt's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for Lola.

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

Surviving, that's my plan.

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

It's a long drive home to Tarzana.

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

Powerman don't need to fight, powerman don't need guns, powerman got money on his side.

Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

I'm the mirror to your mood, you hate me and I hate you.

Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.