Lenny Kravitz
We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.Collection: Computers
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.Collection: Motivational
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.Collection: Car
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Funny
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.Collection: Change
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Cool
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?Collection: Funny
I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.
Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.
You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
The image is an image.
I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.
I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.
I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.
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.
A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.
A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a release. I'm glad it's come back into my life.
I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.
People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.
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 mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?
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.
I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
You're never promised your next breath.
I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
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.
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 made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.
I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
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 mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.
God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.
I am trying to get closer to God.
I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
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.
I don't play the tuba.
I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.
God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.