Adam Levine Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world,

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

It all sounded questionable. ... I just hope if it's a false accusation, that the amount of media attention focused on the players, the same amount of attention is put on their innocence.

I think Microsoft is waiting to hear Sony's plan about the PSP and then we may hear something about the Xbox 2.

To be totally honest with you, I actually didn't meet them. Technically it wasn't so much of a collaboration because the song was written.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.

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

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Markets are conversations.

Every male secretly wants sex with Brad Pitt.

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

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

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

Men need to live and breathe women.

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.

Nothing wrong with making money,

I've got the moves like Jagger.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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].

I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

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.

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

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.

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?

Chemistry cannot be purchased.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.

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.

The writers needed to, as part of their jobs, take on taboo subject matter.

that he thinks, he believes he is dead.

It was a good day for the First Amendment and free expression.

There was a rumor that Jessie and I were sleeping together and it is not true. I'm just going to say it right here that Jessie and I are not sleeping together. We're just friends.

I love those guys. They're crazy and fresh and interesting. And the s**t that they do is pretty unique.

You can't find anybody in Washington that doesn't like Katie. That's nearly impossible to do. I can say that was not the case for me. Everybody calls her and she takes everyone's call. I don't know how she does it. She figured a way to pack more hours into the day.

You can present yourself as an exotic muse the West wants but that's not going to sell clothes.

All I needed to do was sing the lyrics that had already been written. I don't know those guys; they seem kind of kooky and crazy. I like their vibe.