We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Notes from Wikiquote
From an interview with Maureen Cleave first published in London's Evening Standard newspaper (4 March 1966). In the UK, it gained little attention at the time, but only became notorious when published in the US later in 1966.