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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

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Lenny Kravitz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: May 26
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Interior Designer
Multi-Instrumentalist
Percussionist
Pianist
Poet
Record Producer
Singer
New York City
New York
Leonard Albert Kravitz
Leonard A. Kravitz
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I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.
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When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.
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Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.
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You need to open up so that more comes through. And you can just feel that when your ego is not in the way and when you're letting it be what it wants to be. You have to let it be what it wants to be as opposed to what you think it should be.
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If I were white, I'd get less criticism.
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I don't play the tuba.
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People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
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You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.
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I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.
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There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
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