Lenny Kravitz
Jimi Hendrix was just so fluid. His hands were connected to his soul, you know? His playing was just so emotional. You could feel the fire, you could feel the blues. You could feel the sadness. It's unbelievable.Collection: Sadness
I've always had to deal with being biracial, even in music. When I came on the scene, I'd go to these record labels, and they'd say things like, "Lenny Kravitz. That's a weird name." I'm brown-skinned and I've got these dreadlocks and I've got this Jewish last name.Collection: Names
I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can't do it without them, so it's really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that's very satisfying and very magical.Collection: People
When you see a close person you know pass in front of your eyes, it's hard core. After all that, I just wanted to enjoy every day. That was my goal. And to give thanks and to live fully.Collection: Eye
I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it's kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.Collection: Years
I basically camped out for a year and a half in an Airstream trailer on the beach out in front of the studio. I had no idea what I was gonna do, what kind of album I was gonna make - all I knew was that I wanted to sit there and just take in whatever came.Collection: Beach
Eventually you're going to have a digital transfer anyway when you make a CD, so it doesn't matter as long as what you're hitting first is what you want it to be.Collection: Cds
I don't like to approach people that much. There's been times when I wanted to say something to somebody, in a quick moment, but didn't. Then you think, man, who knows?Collection: Men
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.Collection: School
God said, Here. Have it. Enjoy it. I'm gonna be miserable?Collection: Miserable
I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.Collection: Timeless
Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's what you have to do; it's relationships, it's like we have relationships with our families, with our friends, with our loved ones.Collection: Loved Ones
There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.Collection: Believe
Let's look at human interactions. I really believe that there is a way for us to settle disputes nonviolently, using our minds, using all of that was given to us.Collection: Believe
I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole foods that are healthy for us. And then, of course, everyone being able to eat and at least have a humane way to live. There's enough for everybody, but unfortunately, there's a lot of greed and a lot of ego.Collection: Humane Way
I'm experiencing the mood to go out and share the music. I don't look at these concerts as a platform for people to watch me, look at me. No, a tour is about an interaction. A thing, myself, a band, and the people who support what I do and enjoy what I do.Collection: People
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.Collection: Clear Head
I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.Collection: Selfish
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."Collection: Believe
The most important thing for me is the moment, going from one thing to the next and hitting all the different levels and different points that make the whole what it is.Collection: Important
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.Collection: Creative
When I'm doing interiors - especially the ones where you really have full creative freedom - it's about creating an environment for people to feel so comfortable and at ease. I want them to become inspired to live and feel better.Collection: Feel Better
For me a watch is a really beautiful instrument. I don't so much care what time it is but I do love watches, and I love how they're constructed.Collection: Beautiful
Everything that I make I use.Collection: Use
It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.Collection: Father
We're beginning to play God and get into cloning. We give up quickly. Divorce is an easy option. So why not just create your own mate? Synthesize a human being. You get tired of it, turn it off and put it in the closet like the vacuum cleaner.Collection: Giving Up
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.Collection: Song
I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it's always something that just happened.Collection: Song
The way I was raised and the people that I grew up around for the most part were very humble people, and I appreciate all that they taught me, and their energy and their magnanimity help keep me grounded.Collection: Humble
When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.Collection: Song
Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.Collection: Years
I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Song
I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often . . .Collection: Cooking
We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.Collection: Play
I identify more with women than with men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.Collection: Funny
I just live my life and try to be present. When I'm present in the moment and something comes, I can capture it, because it doesn't come from me, it's out there.Collection: Trying
I’ll be quite frank with you — I didn’t know about Hunger Games — so when I’m telling kids and they say, ‘Who are you playing?’ and I say Cinna, they go, ‘Oh you’re playing the gay guy.’ That was an actual answer. I’ve never brought that up yet. That’s how they perceived it. So I thought about it, and I read the book and I don’t see that he is or isn’t [gay]. He’s a designer, he’s a stylist, he has gold eyeliner—that doesn’t mean anything either way.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Mother
I'm a very open and loving person. My whole thing has been "let love rule" since my first album. I'm about unity and peace and God.Collection: Unity
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.Collection: Trying
I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening.Collection: Greek
One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.Collection: Musician
I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Play
You've got your entourage and people that help you make whatever happen around you. Everything's crazy and you're not paying attention to your inner feelings because you're so busy. I couldn't take it.Collection: Crazy
I'm definitely happy with everything I've done. I stand behind it. You'll always be saying, "Well, I could change that, or I would do that differently." But you have to let it be what it is.Collection: Done
I get hired as a writer or producer and I do the best I can to bring out that artist. If somebody calls you to do something, you go right for that vision and you're aware of that person's vibe. You're trying to get inside of them.Collection: Artist
So that’s why you’ve got to try, you got to breath and have some fun. Though I’m not paid, I play this game, and I won’t stop until I’m done. But what I really want to know is – Are you gonna go my way?Collection: Fun