Quotes By Lenny Kravitz

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

I am trying to get closer to God.

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

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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?

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The image is an image.

I don't play the tuba.

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.

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

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

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