Quotes from Lenny Kravitz

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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

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

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

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

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 was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.

At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.

I'm a very open and loving person. My whole thing has been "let love rule" since my first album. I'm about unity and peace and God.

My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.

Being free is a state of mind.

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.

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

Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.

A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.

I am trying to get closer to God.