Quotes By Lenny Kravitz

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

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.

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.

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

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.

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.

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

You're never promised your next breath.

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

I am trying to get closer to God.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

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

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

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.

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.