Quotes By Lenny Kravitz

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.

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

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

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.

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 don't play the tuba.

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.

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.

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 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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

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

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.

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

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'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 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.

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