Quotes By Lenny Kravitz

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The image is an image.

I don't play the tuba.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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.