Lenny Kravitz Quotes

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

When you have the chance to present yourself vocally, you realize a kind of brand develops around that vocal, and you start to see the public consciousness of you is only about one half of your brain.

People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.

Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.

I understand there's damage control to do on my image, but people are always gonna have their opinion of me no matter what. I understand 100 people may like me and 1,000 people may hate me. That's fine.

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

Being in the public eye, you're always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don't really care anymore.

My public image is none of my business.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

It is the public which turns a raja into ''rank'' and a hero into a zero.

I have a positive outlook, but when you're out in the public eye, you wonder how people see you.

There's stigmas attached to anything that makes you, in the public's eye, seem weak. So of course, you know, you're in a business where your image, and the way people perceive you, you are taught, is important.

I'm forever reading on the Internet that I apparently cultivate this audience and never go badly.