Lenny Kravitz is “ready” for love.
The “American Woman” singer – who turns 60 on Sunday, May 26 – is “just open” for a relationship and although he finds it hard “not to look” for a partner, he thinks the best approach to finding a significant other is to put the situation to the back of his mind.
“It’s hard not to look. You know when you desire something you’re looking for it, right? But I find that when you don’t look is when you find it. And I’m at a place where I’ve said this for several years, ‘I’m ready. I’m ready. I’m ready.’ I wasn’t ready. I thought I was ready, right?’ But, I can say that I’ve have never felt how I feel now.” asked if he has a partner or is looking for one, he told “CBS Mornings’ presenter Gayle King.
Lenny insisted he doesn’t feel the need to “work” at his reputation for being cool and sexy.
“Are you aware of the effect you have on people or is this something that you have to work at?'” Gayle asked.
“I don’t work on it at all. And I don’t think about it but I am aware of people’s reaction,” he replied.
The “Fly Away” hitmaker grew up to be a “people pleaser” but his daughter Zoe Kravitz – who he has with Lisa Bonet – has taught him the importance of setting his boundaries.
“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. For some reason, I’m still that 16-year-old kid trying to get the record deal.
“That’s something that I’ve been exercising and growing in where no is necessary – at times. And this is something that I actually learned from my daughter. She’s so good at creating her boundaries. And boundaries are healthy, you know? But that generation, they don’t have time to play,” he said.
