Lenny Kravitz Quotes

The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

You don't want to be a Kardashian.

Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter.

TV likes you to talk about the superficial.

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.

Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.

It's all very well setting up your own brand of face cream or exercise wear - but Christ, it's so shallow.

Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.

Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.

I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

Sometimes America gets tempted by the glitz and glamour.

I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.

I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.