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It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.

I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

I haven't had an orthodox career.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.