Sitting just outside his home recording studio on the rural Bahamian island of Eleuthera,
Lenny Kravitz — with his chiseled features, towering locks and timeless cool — reveals a shocker: he’s having a tough time in the love department.
“I would really like [to find love],” Kravitz, 54, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, opening up about his life now and the rewarding work of his Let Love Rule Foundation. “But it’s difficult for me,” he explains, “being so dedicated to my art, which is not an excuse, it’s just difficult”.
Life is indeed busy for Kravitz, who was raised in New York City and Los Angeles, but now splits his time between the Bahamas — where his mother, the late
Jeffersons star Roxie Roker would send him for summers to visit family (his father, of Ukrainian Jewish descent, was late TV producer Sy Kravitz) — and his other home in Paris.
Lenny Kravitz Talks Love, Lisa Bonet and His Struggle to Find the One: 'It's Difficult