Lenny Kravitz
I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
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 couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.
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 you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
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.
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 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.
There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
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.
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
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'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 a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
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.
There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.
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.
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.
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.
It's very important to vote. People died for this right.
God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.
I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.
If I were white, I'd get less criticism.
Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.Collection: Love
Being free is a state of mind.Collection: Mind
Love is the most powerful energy there is.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: Music
My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.Collection: Philosophy
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.Collection: New Orleans
God is love and if you are ready, he always is.Collection: Religious
We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.Collection: Who We Are
None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself.Collection: Happiness
I just live my life and try to be present.Collection: Trying
You need to open up so that more comes through. And you can just feel that when your ego is not in the way and when you're letting it be what it wants to be. You have to let it be what it wants to be as opposed to what you think it should be.Collection: Thinking
Music definitely inspires my design all the time.Collection: Design
Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.Collection: Calm
We have so many distractions. We're losing the family unit. We're losing the one-on-one. We're becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There's a lot to deal with out there.Collection: Becoming
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.Collection: Writing
To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who likes to be in control, not only of my art but of my life and things around me, and it can be healthy up to a certain point, but at the end of the day, we have to go on faith and learn to let go and ride the wave.Collection: Letting Go
I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.Collection: Want
I'm really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Thinking
Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Collaboration
People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.Collection: Stars
Tape machines are effects boxes as well because each tape machine has its own sound. You can over-load a tape machine or you can bump it a certain way so it compresses or makes a sound, tape saturation.Collection: Sound
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.Collection: Book
My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.Collection: Mom