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

I don't believe in telling all to the public, but I feel a certain gratitude to them for having provided me with a fine material base that enables me to do pretty much what I want, possibly, for the rest of my life.

If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

We laughed a lot. That's one thing we forgot about for a few years - laughing. When we went through all the lawsuits, it looked as if everything was bleak, but when I think back to before that, I remember we used to laugh all the time.

That was the thing about Prabhupada, you see. He didn't just talk about loving Krishna and getting out of this place, but he was the perfect example. He talked about always chanting, and he was always chanting. I think that that in itself was perhaps the most encouraging thing for me. It was enough to make me try harder, to be just a little bit better. He was a perfect example of everything he preached.