Faith & Spirit Quote by Dave Davies

Davies is naming a cultural split that rock musicians have been poking at for decades: the sense that the institutional wrapper of faith has come to feel like a barrier to the very interior experience it claims to shepherd. The line is careful, almost diplomatically so. He doesn’t say religion is the problem; he says the problem is "between" religion and spirituality, shifting blame from belief itself to the friction created when belief gets bureaucratized, policed, and marketed.

The phrase "organized religion" does most of the work. It’s a euphemism that still lands like an accusation: hierarchy, rules, gatekeeping, spectacle. Against it, "spirituality" is positioned as personal, porous, and self-directed. For an artist, that’s not an abstract distinction; it’s a defense of the creative and emotional life as something sacred that doesn’t need permission. In two clauses, Davies sets up a familiar rock-era moral geography: churches as institutions of control, spirituality as an authentic current you feel in the body, in music, in solitude.

The context matters: Davies comes from a generation that watched postwar Christianity collide with youth culture, psychedelia, Eastern philosophies, and later the culture wars. His "I think" softens the claim, but it also signals lived experience rather than doctrine. The subtext is a plea for room to believe without enrolling: to keep awe, guilt, ecstasy, and doubt in human scale, not institutional scale.