The Kinks’s Dave Davies took a minute out of his Ripping Up New York City tour to talk to LA Record about inspiration. “It’s a kind of process—I find melancholery really really useful,” Davies said. “It’s a way of remembering and trying to construct something hopeful for the future.”
Dave Davies on Inspiration
Liz Wood
Liz Wood is a writer and critic living in Cape Cod. She was a 2022 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and a member of the NBCC 2023 and 2024 Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Words Without Borders, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.