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17 Adam Levine Quotes That Prove He Lives In His Own Little World
People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive hasn't gotten this far in life without a keen sense of who he is, and that often means that Adam Levine gets a reputation as a, well, douchebag. But despite that bad rap, the Maroon 5 singer means well — after all, anyone who has a bromance/faux-rivalry with Blake Shelton can't be a bad guy, right? Levine abides by his own philosophy and lives in a world that's very Levine-centric — and, hey, he wouldn't be Adam Levine if he didn't. Check out the quotes that prove he is truly living in his own little world.
Levine-Isms About Feet
From an interview with GQ, on why he’s happy he’s not a foot fetishist:
“I don’t like feet. You know what I mean? But some people do. Some people have f***ing foot fetishes. And it’s weird to me. But I don’t have to deal with it, because I don’t have that. You know?”
Levine-Isms About His Bad Reputation
To GQ, on the people who call him a douche:
“I’m not the easiest person to love right off the bat, you know. If I knew everyone in the world, they would love me. Every single last f***ing one of them.”
Levine-Isms About the Paparazzi
To GQ, on the paparazzi:
“It’s fun if you look at it like a spy movie. ‘We’re trapped in here! How do we get out?”
Levine-Isms About Personal Happiness
To USA Today, on how his life is so amazing and you don’t even know, bro:
“I’m so happy that I get to have this life. It’s funny because no one knows how good my life is as well as I do.”
Levine-Isms About His Bad Reputation (Again)
To Details, on why he has a reputation as a player:
“There are two kinds of men. There are men who are fucking 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.”
Levine-Isms About Yoga
In an interview with Details, on why he practices yoga (and no, it ain’t for performance anxiety):
“I’ll tell you what yoga is good for: F***-ing.”
Levine-Isms About Laundry
To USA Today, on why he’ll happily pay someone to do his laundry, thankyouverymuch:
”I have news for you: Whether or not you do your own laundry does not make you humble. It’s not a defining characteristic of being humble. I’m not going to throw a party because a famous person does their laundry.”
Levine-Isms About His Perfume
To the LA Times, on his failed fragrance:
“Listen, the fragrance? Not very successful — didn’t do what we wanted it to do. But do I think it smells good? Do I think it was designed well? Do I stand by what I did creatively? One hundred percent.”
Levine-Isms About Fans
To the Las Vegas Mercury, on what he wants fans to get out of his shows:
“I want our shows to have masses of sexuality and crying.”
Levine-Isms About Nudity
To Cosmopolitan UK, on getting naked in the California sun:
“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?”
Levine-Isms About Childhood
To Details, on being a stud at 14:
”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.”
Levine-Isms About Self-Confidence
From an interview with the LA Times, on why he doesn’t care what people think of him. Like, at all:
“If I cared about what people thought, I’d be in a lot of trouble. Consistently not caring about that has been very good for me so far.”
Levine-Isms About Sexuality
From his interview with OUT Magazine:
“I’m extremely comfortable in my sexuality, so I can think, ‘Oh, that’s a good-looking dude.’ Acknowledging that someone’s attractive and wanting to fuck a dude are two different things.”
Levine-Isms About Fashion
From Twitter, on earrings and the elderly:
“It’s kinda dope to have an earring if you’re old.”
Levine-Isms About Airplanes
To Details, on the lack of science behind planes:
“I hate flying. You know why? Because no one really knows how planes work.”
Levine-Isms About His Bad Reputation (Third Time's the Charm)
To GQ, on why he’s maybe not a total douchebag. Or maybe, you know, he is:
“Would it be really easy to assume that I was a douchebag? Definitely. One hundred percent. But that doesn’t mean that I am. Or maybe I am, I don’t know.”
Levine-Isms About Interviews
On hating interviews, from his interview with the LA Times.
“The truth is that — no offense — I can’t stand doing press.”
