I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.

The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give.

Whatever you've done, you get it back, so you can either go on, or you can blow it.

We're God too but we don't realise it.

Nobody can become a drug addict if they're hip. Because it's obvious that if you're hip then you've got to make it. The buzz of all buzzes which is the thing that is God - you've got to be straight to get it.

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

Krishna is God, so He's absolute: His name, His form, prasadam, it's all Him.