American Songwriter May/June Cover Story: Lenny Kravitz Returns to His Origins on ‘Blue Electric Light’ —“It’s a Celebration, It’s Sensual and Spiritual”

It takes a lot to be yourself. Paradoxically, it’s not something that comes easily to many. You have to find yourself first. We grow up beholden to a life of outside expectations. Inescapable diversions. It’s a dog-eat-dog world, as they say. But there always remains a chance for self-realization. A crack in the mirror through which we can see our true selves on the other side—as we’re meant to be, as we want to be, deep down.