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

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

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

('Other People's Lives') is my first attempt to make a studio album that's got original songs on it, and it's a completely new adventure for me.

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

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.