Lenny Kravitz Quotes

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

Love is the most powerful energy there is.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

You're never promised your next breath.

I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often . . .

Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

I don't pull, I just receive.

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.

It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.