It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.

I was brought up in the kind of Catholic situation up until I was about eleven years old, which was that God is this thing that we're never going to see, we're never going to meet, but you still have to believe in what we say. It's like this blind faith in something that they can't show you.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.

Everybody is looking for Krishna. Some don't realize that they are, but they are.

One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that.

Even one moment in the company of a divine person, Krishna's pure devotee, can help a tremendous amount.