Zitat des Tages von Lenny Kravitz:
A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.
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.
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.
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?
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.
If I were white, I'd get less criticism.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
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.
Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
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 think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.
God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.
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.
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.
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.
It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
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.
Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
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.
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.
You're never promised your next breath.
I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.
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.
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.