When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration. Lenny Kravitz More Quotes by Lenny Kravitz More Quotes From Lenny Kravitz Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing. Lenny Kravitz motivational inspirational love There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that. Lenny Kravitz things-in-life new-orleans people Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through. Lenny Kravitz music-is-my-life music-is reflection You're never promised your next breath. Lenny Kravitz breaths next 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. Lenny Kravitz conform music ideas Being free is a state of mind. Lenny Kravitz being-free politics 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. Lenny Kravitz offering trying beautiful Love is the most powerful energy there is. Lenny Kravitz powerful energy love-is We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being. Lenny Kravitz miserable states energy My life is perfect because I accept it as it is. Lenny Kravitz life-is perfect philosophy We're beginning to play God and get into cloning. We give up quickly. Divorce is an easy option. So why not just create your own mate? Synthesize a human being. You get tired of it, turn it off and put it in the closet like the vacuum cleaner. Lenny Kravitz divorce tired giving-up God is love and if you are ready, he always is. Lenny Kravitz god-is-love religious religion None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself. Lenny Kravitz gratitude happiness people We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are. Lenny Kravitz take-time who-we-are should We have so many distractions. We're losing the family unit. We're losing the one-on-one. We're becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There's a lot to deal with out there. Lenny Kravitz narcissistic becoming losing My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner. Lenny Kravitz guy dream sweet Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now. Lenny Kravitz years-ago shock years When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything. Lenny Kravitz instruments writing world To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who likes to be in control, not only of my art but of my life and things around me, and it can be healthy up to a certain point, but at the end of the day, we have to go on faith and learn to let go and ride the wave. Lenny Kravitz healthy letting-go art I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it's always something that just happened. Lenny Kravitz location different song
