Adam Levine Quotes & Sayings

You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you? — Adam Levine

You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls. — Adam Levine

I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular. — Adam Levine

It's a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or two to piece together, depending on the song and how I'm feeling on any given day. I don't really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring. — Adam Levine

Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel. — Adam Levine

If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we'd live in a blissful Utopia. — Adam Levine

Nothing last forever, but be honest babe, it hurts but it may be the only way. — Adam Levine

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married. — Adam Levine

Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women. — Adam Levine

At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.' — Adam Levine

Acne may be good at destroying self-confidence, but Proactiv+ is good at destroying acne. — Adam Levine

I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work. — Adam Levine

Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence. — Adam Levine

Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours. — Adam Levine

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else. — Adam Levine

George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me. — Adam Levine

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews. — Adam Levine

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls. — Adam Levine

The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feels right. He's not a dancer - neither am I. — Adam Levine

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing. — Adam Levine

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don't. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me. — Adam Levine

Nothing wrong with making money. — Adam Levine

Doing something that you love regardless when it's a blockbuster movie or you're writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out. I think that's actually fine, and I would encourage that all the time. — Adam Levine

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing. — Adam Levine

That's not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan ... A lot of people probably did, I don't know, [but I did not]. — Adam Levine

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference. — Adam Levine

'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it. — Adam Levine

Markets are conversations. — Adam Levine

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed. — Adam Levine

I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effective. They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy. — Adam Levine

People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself. — Adam Levine

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me. — Adam Levine

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side. — Adam Levine

I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream. — Adam Levine

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do. — Adam Levine

'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music. — Adam Levine

Chemistry cannot be purchased. — Adam Levine

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form. — Adam Levine

And I think I have a distinct voice. — Adam Levine

I'm feeling like the music business is reaping what it's sown. It's going through what inevitably it was going to go through. It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn't do things right and had a poor business model. — Adam Levine

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I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be as naked as I am. But I live in California, where it's always warm, so why not? — Adam Levine

I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night. — Adam Levine

Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you're left feeling hollow and empty. — Adam Levine

I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that's fine, no problem with that, — Adam Levine

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings. — Adam Levine

I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her. — Adam Levine

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit. — Adam Levine

I've got the moves like Jagger. — Adam Levine

Every male secretly wants sex with Brad Pitt. — Adam Levine

My job means I work late. — Adam Levine

I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored — Adam Levine

When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music. — Adam Levine

I'm doing pretty well. If you don't get married, you can't get divorced. Why couldn't we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through? — Adam Levine

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating. — Adam Levine

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit. — Adam Levine

Hey, bro ... So there's like 7,000 paparazzi outside. Maybe two of you guys can roll over, and one of you can grab the Ferrari, and then we can just split? Thanks, bro. — Adam Levine

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it. — Adam Levine

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good. — Adam Levine

I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you're born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two. — Adam Levine

I'm cocky. It's different. Cocky is playful. — Adam Levine

There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me. — Adam Levine

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone. — Adam Levine

She's the coolest person in the world ... I don't date what the person does ... You know what I mean? I could have been a zitty teenager and walked into a Tower Records, and we would have talked about Pearl Jam, and we would have fallen in love when we were 15. And that's when you know. It's like, oh, my God, game over ... Listen, there are a lot of women in this country, in many countries, who date men for their money. Okay? That's despicable. Right? That's not what we're talking about here. Whatever does it for you, man. — Adam Levine

I think the first thing that you need to detach yourself from is numbers, because music has now splintered off into so many different forms of media, MTV doesn't play videos, the radio is now competing with the Internet. — Adam Levine

There are two kinds of men. There are men who are f**king misogynist pigs and then there are men who really love women, who think they're the most amazing people in the world. And that's me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much. — Adam Levine

Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift. — Adam Levine

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage. — Adam Levine

ADHD isn't a bad thing, and you shouldn't feel different from those without ADHD. — Adam Levine

As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent. — Adam Levine

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world. — Adam Levine

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody. — Adam Levine

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship. — Adam Levine

It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry. — Adam Levine

People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren't going to like you. — Adam Levine

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe. — Adam Levine

Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man. — Adam Levine

Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious. — Adam Levine

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure. — Adam Levine

Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women ... There's a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men ... And if you're in the public eye, to me, it's very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don't ever reveal any truth. There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing. — Adam Levine

Men need to live and breathe women. — Adam Levine

A lot of times people will think, "I'm strong, I'm in shape; why can't I do this pose?" But that's not the point. There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next. — Adam Levine

I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic. — Adam Levine

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world. — Adam Levine

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too. — Adam Levine

Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically. — Adam Levine

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good. — Adam Levine