Lenny Kravitz Quotes

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.

When I record in a studio. I know that on Tuesday at 3 o'clock I've got to go be creative.

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

And sometimes, I'd be allowed to be hanging out in the studio, which I just loved kind of, like, being in the room with these big recording desks, with all these, like, buttons and knobs and watching the guys use them.

I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.

I don't use any real vintage hardware any longer. That's always been the object as far as gaining control of the studio environment, going back to when I built my first studio, Secret Sound, in New York City. The whole point was to not have to pay studio bills anymore and not be looking at the clock.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.

I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

I'm most comfortable when I'm in the studio and music playing.

In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording studio, really, where the people in the booth were not interested in making a very good album. It's often a light-hearted atmosphere but serious at the same time.

I'm a studio rat.