My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
— Lenny Kravitz
There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.
If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
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.
I am trying to get closer to God.
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.
The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
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.
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 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.
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 couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.
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.
God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.
I don't play the tuba.
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
