Quotes By Lenny Kravitz

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

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.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

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

It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

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.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

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

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

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

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

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

You're never promised your next breath.

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.

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

I am trying to get closer to God.

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.

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 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.

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.