Lenny Kravitz opens up about wanting to get married again and relationships with ex-wife Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa as he talks about his rock ‘n’ roll life in Esquire profile

Lenny Kravitz has opened up about his rock ‘n’ roll life in a wide-ranging interview with Esquire, opening up about his desire to remarry, his blended family with ex-wife Lisa Bonet and more.

The musician, 59, has remained on good terms with his ex-wife Lisa. Lenny gets along well with Bonet’s now estranged husband Jason Momoa, and the children Lisa shares with Jason even call the rocker “Uncle Lenny.”

Still, Lenny doesn’t see their relationship as particularly extraordinary. “I wouldn’t consider it this heroic achievement,” he told the magazine. ‘To me this is just normal.’

Jason recently stepped in for Lenny when the rocker was unable to attend the New York premiere of daughter Zoe Kravitz’s film The Batman – an act the musician called “beautiful.”

“I got you,” Kravitz recalled Momoa assuring him. ‘I’m going to this one. I’ll be there.’ Momoa followed and attended the star-studded premiere with his children, daughter Lola Iolani and son Nakoa-Wolf.

Although the Are You Gonna Go My Way singer hasn’t walked down the aisle since divorcing Lisa in 1993, he hopes marriage is still in his future.

‘Absolute. I’ve grown enough. I have become stronger. I have become more disciplined. I have become more open to being able to do this. But it was very difficult for me to figure it out.”

Kravitz, who has had failed engagements to Nicole Kidman and Adriana Lima, said of the marriage: “The desire has always been there.”

“The tools to do this haven’t always been there,” he added.

As for more children, Kravitz is open to potentially expanding his family.

“I couldn’t do it, and I could do it,” he said.

“If it doesn’t happen, I’ve done the best thing I could ever dream of with Zoe. If I was with someone who wanted to have children, absolutely. One hundred percent,” he said.

Zoe is now a famous actress in her own right, but she initially considered entering the industry without using her father’s last name.

Her father understood her reluctance: “I understood,” he said, adding, “but I thought: that’s your name.”

But Lenny admitted the nepo baby controversy has left him scratching his head.

“I don’t understand that whole thing,” he explained, adding, “You’re good at what you do.”

Describing his own career, Lenny described struggling to be seen as a serious rock musician.

“There was an article at the time that said, ‘If Lenny Kravitz were white, he’d be the next savior of rock ‘n’ roll.’ I got a lot of negativity from all these older white men who didn’t want to give me that position… It was disheartening at times. I am fine. Intact – happy, healthy, focused, with so much more to do.”

He also remained baffled by the way black entertainment and culture outlets perceive him.

“To this day, I haven’t been invited to a BET thing or a Source Awards thing,” he said. “And it’s like here’s a black artist who has reintroduced a lot of black art forms, who has broken down those barriers – just like the barriers that came before me were broken down. That’s positive. And they have no say in the matter?’

Lenny also addressed recent inflammatory comments from Rolling Stone founder and former editor-in-chief Jann Wenner. Many labeled the comments sexist and racist, and as a result, Jann was removed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame board.

Jann sparked controversy when he suggested that no female or black artist was “articulate” enough to be included in his new book on the “philosophers of rock” – a book that profiles seven white male artists.

“To the extent that none of the women were eloquent enough at this intellectual level… It’s not that they’re not creative geniuses,” Wenner suggested.

The 77-year-old was asked by the New York Times about the lack of diversity in the lineup of musicians profiled in his latest book, titled “The Masters.”

The subjects – Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Jerry Garcia, Bono and Bruce Springsteen – are all white men, who Wenner emphasized could “really articulate” their philosophy.

Wenner said that no woman was “articulate enough” to be counted in the same number, and that black artists like Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield “just didn’t articulate at that level either.”

He apologized for his comments shortly afterwards, but not before he was quickly fired from the board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – which he co-founded in 1987 and served as chairman until 2020.

Speaking about the reactions, Lenny told Esquire: ‘It’s very disappointing and sad. I have known Jann since 1987. I have been to his house. In his life. I was disappointed. I was very disappointed. The statement alone, even though you only heard about the man yesterday, was horrible and embarrassing. And just plain wrong.”