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My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

- Lenny Kravitz

Own, Potatoes, Guy, Bohemian

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

- Lenny Kravitz

Think, Old, Also, Old School

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

- Lenny Kravitz

More, Records, Read, Glamour

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

- Lenny Kravitz

City, Big, Pretty, Big City

If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.

- Lenny Kravitz

Singing, Bigger, Like, Led Zeppelin

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

- Lenny Kravitz

Think, Big, Very, Cracking

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

- Lenny Kravitz

Me, Finger, Makes, Confusion

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.

- Lenny Kravitz

Listening, Song, Recorder

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.

- Lenny Kravitz

String, Studio, Cut, Ripped

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

- Lenny Kravitz

Very, Had, Each Time, Category

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

- Lenny Kravitz

Pretty, Only, Lot, Chorus

It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.

- Lenny Kravitz

Trip, Record, Hits, Greatest Hits

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.

- Lenny Kravitz

Rock And Roll, Private, Roll, 24-7

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.

- Lenny Kravitz

Body, Big, Something Else, Trips

The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.

- Lenny Kravitz

Big, Next, Prove, Big Hit

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

- Lenny Kravitz

Jazz, Traded, Les, Fender

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.

- Lenny Kravitz

Like, Still, Am, Changed

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

- Lenny Kravitz

Country, Race, Still, Discuss

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

- Lenny Kravitz

People, Listen, Lot, Lyrics

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.

- Lenny Kravitz

Experience, My Life, I Think, Fresh

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.

- Lenny Kravitz

Love, Bad, Accuse, Reflects

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

- Lenny Kravitz

Idea, Image, Everybody, Public Image

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

- Lenny Kravitz

Dress, Play, Doing, In-Between

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.

- Lenny Kravitz

Change, Gift, Moved, Change The World

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

- Lenny Kravitz

Original, Notes, Makes, Together

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

- Lenny Kravitz

Career, Think, Reason, Longevity

Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.

- Lenny Kravitz

I Remember, Going, Compare, Every Night

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

- Lenny Kravitz

Important, Very, Died, Vote

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.

- Lenny Kravitz

Small, Records, Like, Funk

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

- Lenny Kravitz

Here, Take, Were, Energy

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