Adam Levine Quotes

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

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

I'm confident. Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.

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.

I've got the moves like Jagger.

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

I'm cocky. It's different. Cocky is playful.

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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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Markets are conversations.

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

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

There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.

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

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.

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

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

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

Roads taken far away from you are many. Do not fear, Mother; they all lead back.

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?

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

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

Men need to live and breathe women.

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.

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.

Every male secretly wants sex with Brad Pitt.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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

I don’t think any relationship responds well to pressure.

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.

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

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.