Adam levine quotes

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

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'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

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

Men need to live and breathe women.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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'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.

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

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

Take control over your skin by using an acne treatment system that actually works: Proactiv+.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I've got the moves like Jagger.

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.

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

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

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

Every male secretly wants sex with Brad Pitt.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Chemistry cannot be purchased.

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

Nothing wrong with making money.

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

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

And I think I have a distinct voice.

Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.

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

Markets are conversations.

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.

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.

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.

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

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