The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and audience.

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

Hopefully, with some years of practice and just getting to that state, I'll try extreme sports again.

I feel like with our shows it always feels weird to be performers on stage and not engaging in audience interaction in some way - that exchange of energy is very much a part of the sound.

I really feel like there's a void in this world for music that acknowledges that spiritual aspect of these activities as well as just the sheer physicality of them.

One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing.

I listen to pop music and it sounds like mantra to me, there's this power to it. There's also something to be said about how it reaches people on a mass level, there's some magic to that.

Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.

The hardest thing in life is a man to be honest with himself

They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there....

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see!

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer.