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

How long it will take until we get to a Golden Age where everybody's perfectly in tune with God's will, I don't know; but because of Prabhupada, Krishna consciousness has certainly spread more in the last sixteen years than it has since the sixteenth century, since the time of Lord Caitanya. The mantra has spread more quickly and the movement's gotten bigger and bigger.

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

You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

And so my music, it doesn't matter if I did it 20 years ago or if I did it tomorrow. It doesn't go with trends. My trousers don't get wider and tighter every six months. My music just stays what it is, and that's the way I like it.

God is actually inside. He lives in our hearts.

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.