Lenny Kravitz Quotes

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

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

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 wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.

Working with Gabby [Sidibe], I realized immediately that she was amazingly talented. I could tell just by the way she'd get into the role.

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.

I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

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

I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.

The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.

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 always read the Capitol as f - ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It's all happening.

There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.

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

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

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

I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.

I don't pull, I just receive.

Don't take it so seriously.

My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough ... I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

Being free is a state of mind.

(On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or sex god) I am neither. My favourite role is father.

Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.

I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.

The image is an image.

A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

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.

Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.

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.

I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

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

I'm looking forward to going out at the concert with a clear head, with a clear mind, with a clear spirit and experiencing whatever it is. It's great.

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

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.

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

I didn't really listen to rock 'n' roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out.

I just feel so good; it feels like a very creative time for me. As far as my mind, spirit, and body, I've never felt better.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

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.

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

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

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

I don't play the tuba.

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

After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.

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

Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius ...

I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.

I'm really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials.

It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.

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

I'm just looking for interesting roles and giving acting the respect it deserves.

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

I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.

Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me.

God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.

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 been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.

I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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

If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.

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.

You're never promised your next breath.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

God said, Here. Have it. Enjoy it. I'm gonna be miserable?

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

I just live my life and try to be present.

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

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.

You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."

Love is the most powerful energy there is.

You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

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

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

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

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.

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

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

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

I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.