Adam Levine Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

My job means I work late.

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

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

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

Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.

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.

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

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.

I've got the moves like Jagger.

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.

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].

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.

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.

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.

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.

Men need to live and breathe women.

Markets are conversations.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.