Lenny Kravitz Quotes

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher and higher.

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

Klaus from the Teddybears, Bloodshy and Avant and Mike Snow, they've done lots of Britney Spears production. They went backwards from production to being in a band, which might be cool. I might do that, too, one day.

I feel like I just learned a whole new world when I was studying under Ne-Yo when I was about 17. I was living on Ne-Yo's manager's couch, making three songs a day.

I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.

That's what I do: I drop albums, and I just keep it moving.

Post 'Pink,' I figured out which direction I want my career to take.

If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.

The first album is a special one for most bands or most artists in general. The first record is your whole life, and then after that you have a couple of months to write stuff and get it for the next record.

With 'A Million Miles,' I still was proving myself as a writer and as a vocalist. It gave me the platform to tour again.

'7 Years' is, you could say, a song that eats its own children. That we need to get past the song and get to the person and get to the record and get to the music so we can keep releasing.

Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.

If you analyze my career graph, you will see that I'm slow at choosing projects.

You don't have to start with your dream job, and your idea of what the dream job might be will change during a working life that will have its share of ups and downs, setbacks and advances.

I think with anything career-related, there really is no rush.

I felt love on 'Lil Boat 2.' People say my first project, 'Lil Boat,' was my best project, but I didn't feel it because I was so new, and it took a minute to grow.

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.

I want to work as hard as I can and continue to make a career for myself.

I started out as musician and recording artist but quite soon started to do my own videos. One thing led to another, and soon I was making videos for a living.