Lenny Kravitz at all times seems to exude confidence – whether or not he is on the purple carpet, on stage holding a guitar or elsewhere. Many have described him because the epitome of cool.
But Kravitz does not really feel burdened by different folks’s expectations.
“You’re aware of the effect you have on people, or is this something you have to work at?” Gayle King requested Kravitz during a recent sitdown interview for “CBS Mornings.”
“I don’t work on it at all,” the musician stated. “And I don’t think about it. But I am aware of people’s reaction.”
He spends most of his time focusing on making music. On Friday, the Grammy-winning artist is releasing his twelfth studio album, “Blue Electric Light.”
Inspirations behind new album
Kravitz says the inspiration for the album struck throughout the COVID-19 pandemic when he was at his dwelling within the Bahamas. “Some music needs to sit,” Kravitz stated, however this album poured out of him.
“I made about four albums while I was there. This is the one that I felt needed to come first. It felt very immediate. It felt like this was the beginning of the wave that I should be riding,” Kravitz defined.
The solitude helped Kravitz dig deep and create one thing trustworthy.
“I think just being in the middle of nature, being left alone, being quiet really opened a portal for me,” he defined.Â
Overcoming insecurities
In his new tune, “Human,” Kravitz sings about embarking on a journey to reside his reality.
“I think I was raised – not purposely, but to be a people pleaser. Where I put a lot of people’s feelings before mine. Because I want to see folks happy. And that can be detrimental if you go overboard with that,” Kravitz defined.
Kravitz stated his daughter, Zoë Kravitz, who he shares with ex-wife and actor Lisa Bonet, has helped encourage him to start out creating boundaries and studying find out how to say “no.”
Though he is been within the music business for more than three a long time and seems assured, Kravitz stated he nonetheless has insecurities.
“Sometimes I’m just not sure – necessarily sure what it is that I’m doing. For some reason, I’m still that 16-year-old kid trying to get the record deal,” he stated.
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New York City roots
Kravitz thinks fondly of New York City, the place he was born and raised.Â
“I grew up being a New York kid. I took the subway at a young age – walking with your friends, taking cabs, you know? My mom taught me to be independent, you know?” he stated.
He mirrored on his mother, the late actress Roxie Roker, recognized for her position as Helen Willis on the favored CBS sitcom “The Jeffersons.” He stated the present’s theme tune nonetheless brings him pleasure.
“Every time I hear that song it…lifts me,” stated Kravitz, including that it brings again reminiscences of being a child seeing his mother movie the present.
Before transferring to Los Angeles, Roker would ship Kravitz to an after-school program at Harlem School of the Arts in Manhattan. He not too long ago visited the college and confirmed King the place he first realized to play guitar – a room he hadn’t set foot in since he was round eight years previous.
“It’s a trip,” Kravitz stated.
“All I can do is really just feel how blessed,” he added. “That and how beautiful the journey has been.”
In some ways, Kravitz, who turns 60 on May 26, feels his journey is simply getting began. He stated he is by no means felt so younger.
“I don’t trip out on age,” he stated. “I don’t understand the concept. And for me, look, you can be 30 years old and be destroyed, and you can be 90 years old and be young and vibrant.”