I want the Pope to have the Christ consciousness. I don't want to just talk about Christ.

God's all happiness, all bliss, and by chanting His names we connect with Him. So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

If God is unlimited, then He can appear in any form, whichever way He likes to appear.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

Chanting Hare Krishna is really the same sort of thing as meditation, but I think it has a quicker effect. I mean, even if you put your beads down, you can still say the mantra or sing it without actually keeping track on your beads.