LENNY KRAVITZ

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

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.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

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

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.

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.

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.

Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.

People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.

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.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

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 identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.

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

The image is an image.

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 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.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

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.