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?
— Lenny Kravitz
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.
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.
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.
A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.
I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.
You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.
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.
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.
It's very important to vote. People died for this right.
I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.
I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.
Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.
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?
I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.
Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
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.
I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
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.
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.
Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
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.
A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
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 image is an image.
I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.
If I were white, I'd get less criticism.
God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.
God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.
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 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.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.
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.
