One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian one. The cycle goes from nothing until now and 20th century and then on and right around the cycle until the people are really grooving and then just sinks back into ignorance until it gets back into the beginning again. So the 20th century is a fraction of that cycle, and how many of those cycles has it done yet? It's done as many as you think and all these times it's been through exactly the same things, and it'll be this again.

I've been the same all along. I talk when I feel like it and I shut up when I don't feel like talking.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'

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