Lenny Kravitz

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I am trying to get closer to God.”

“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.”

“I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.”

“God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.”

“Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.”

“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.”

“If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.”