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. Lenny Kravitz More Quotes by Lenny Kravitz More Quotes From Lenny Kravitz 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. Lenny Kravitz crowds lasts years I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs. Lenny Kravitz writing song thinking I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot. Lenny Kravitz albums careers made I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it. Lenny Kravitz records real thinking A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad. Lenny Kravitz dad father firsts 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. Lenny Kravitz games funny book The image is an image. Lenny Kravitz I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me. Lenny Kravitz likes together play One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours. Lenny Kravitz inspired musician When it comes to acting, it's about creating a character and bringing forth a director's vision. It's a weird feeling, because with acting, it's just not about me. I love being in that position, because with the music, it's always about me. Lenny Kravitz creating love-is character Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be. Lenny Kravitz self play writing I'm just looking for interesting roles and giving acting the respect it deserves. Lenny Kravitz acting giving interesting One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV. Lenny Kravitz one-day fighting people I'm sure at one point I will do some acting again, but it would have to be the right thing. I'm not going to do it just because people are offering it to me. Not for those box-office, bullshit, money, noncreative people. But I'll do it when it's right to do it. Lenny Kravitz bullshit offering people I used to do plays and some television commercials when I was younger. I guess my mom's being an actress got me interested in that, but music definitely took its place. Lenny Kravitz television-commercials mom play 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. Lenny Kravitz arrogant sound people My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when I was going to first grade. She said, "You're Bahamian and African-American on one side, and Russian-Jewish on the other. You're no more one than the other, and it's beautiful that you have all this. It makes your life all the more rich. But society will see you only as black." Lenny Kravitz african-american mother beautiful Later on in life I was like, "Wow!" because that's exactly how it was. They don't care that you're mixed. They see you as one color. Lenny Kravitz wow care color I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian. Lenny Kravitz black west white Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go of it, and it went up into the sky and just kept going and going. I completely flipped out, because I didn't understand why. Lenny Kravitz grandmother letting-go sky
