Lenny Kravitz would not put his 25-year rock n' roll career on hold just because he was filming The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

The singer/actor told Ocean Drive magazine's annual Men's Issue, which he graced the cover of, that in recent months he split his time between playing a character on screen and then going into the recording studio to put down new tracks.

Kravitz plays stylist Cinna in the Hunger Games series, working closely with Jennifer Lawrence's character Katniss Everdeen and also Josh Hutcherson's Peeta Mellark. The musician has starred in a number of features films -- such as Precious and Lee Daniels' The Butler -- but he will never leave behind his music career. Kravitz recently finished recording his 10th studio album, due out in 2014, and talked about the grueling process of making time for the record while filming Catching Fire.

He has never forgotten his first love of making music and efforts for his 10th album began accidentally while he was shooting the thriller.

"There was this old-school '70s studio in Atlanta that I wanted to visit. The next thing I knew, I was booking myself in there, filming the movie by day and making music by night," he told the publication.

His then talked about the difference between making films and music, focusing on the distinction of playing a role in someone else's vision rather than his own.

"When I make my music, I write it, I produce it, I play the instruments-it's my expression 100 percent," he said. "What I love about making films is that it's completely not about me; it's about a director's vision, it's about the character, and I'm there to serve. The music was a reaction of doing that all day. Something was brewing inside of me, so it had to come out. At night it would just be, Okay, now I am back to being me, and directing myself-and doing what it is that I do."

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is out in theaters Nov. 22, 2013.

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