Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine has always had a complicated relationship with fame.
“… people do want to be famous for whatever reason,” he said.
“For me, it was, I wanted to just be a successful singer.
I think it had less to do with fame than anything else.”
Still, there’s no denying that Levine has become incredibly famous.
He’s branched out from music into television, even trying his hand at acting.
He even told Morgan that he thought other celebs who complain about public scrutiny had it coming.
In particular, she was a big fan of The Beatles.
“I’d always screw up and say that John was Paul or Paul was John.
If it was George or Ringo, though, I’d nail it.”
Levine soon realized he wanted to be a performer, and he used to practice.
“I used to have a karaoke machine when I was nine,” he said.
That’s where, according to an interview withEllein 2011, he had his first kiss.
“She went in for the kiss,” Levine revealed.
“I was freaked out and amazed.”
They dressed in suits and performed upbeat pop music.
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing."
Kara’s Flowers was signed by a division of Warner Records while they were still in high school.
Levine doesn’t seem to look back on that time fondly.
Speaking withMTVin 2002, Levine blamed money.
Something, it seemed, needed to change.
Suddenly, there were new kinds of people around, and they were hearing brand-new sounds.
As Adam Levine later explained to MTV, their lodging had a lot to do with their evolution.
“We were staying in this housing place that was primarily Black.
“We had friends named Chaos and s***.
It was not Brentwood High.”
“I thought, ‘I can sing like that,'” he said.
Suddenly, Levine and his friends had new goals.
They were willing to collaborate, too.
The album was released in 2002 and slowly climbed the charts, but by 2004, they were everywhere.
Adam Levine told Rolling Stone that their rise to fame was hard to wrap his mind around.
“We’re all blown away by what’s going on,” he said.
It was especially awe-inspiring, he said, that celebrities had taken notice.
They had a particularly intense experience when they played a pre-Grammys party for Clive Davis.
“I was so star-struck those were the coolest people ever at a Maroon 5 show.”
“Looking good is half the battle,” he said.
If Prince wasn’t the sex god, he wouldn’t be Prince.”
“I spend most of my life naked.
“But I live in California, where it’s always warm, so why not?”
“Tattoos wind up being this strange road map or narrative over the years.
It seems he’d prefer to keep some of that private.
He didn’t, however, enjoy being lumped in with the rest of reality television.
“I don’t really like reality television.
That’s not my thing.
I don’t want to be part of that,” he toldRolling Stone.
“But I don’t believe that this is part of that.
I believe that this is something that’s more special.”
“But if this ever were to end at some point, I wouldn’t be on television anymore …
It doesn’t seem to be what I want to do forever.”
“I’m not uncomfortable doing things like that,” he told People (viaRetro 102.5).
“Jenna’s a professional and she’s amazing, and we have a lot of fun.
We were laughing and joking the whole time.”
Ryan Murphy spoke withEntertainment Weeklyabout Levine’s shocking scenes, praising his acting ability.
“I wanted a big star in that,” he said.
“We actually wrote it for him.
He did such a great job.
He has this great movie star charisma.”
Murphy acknowledged that it was a surprise to see a famous face meet such an untimely end.
A few months after that interview, however, everything changed.
“The couple recently reunited and Adam proposed this weekend in Los Angeles,” a representative toldPeople.
It all feels very natural.”
“I want to start having kids, yeah.
After his marriage to Behati Prinsloo, however, Levine didn’t have too long to wait.
Prinsloo gave birth to a daughter named Dusty Rose in 2016, and two more kids quickly followed.
OnInstagram, he often posts photos of his family with their backs turned to the camera.
“It’s zone defense, as they say,” he joked.
“It goes from man to man to zone.
It’s like this and that.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
I love the chaos.
I embrace the chaos.”
In an interview withThe Independent, Adam Levine acknowledged that the band was definitely changing, creatively speaking.
But I’m so tired of, ‘You shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that.’
I wish a band would come out and be genuinely in pursuit in the biggest amount of fame.”
He also told The Independent that he may leave the band someday.
An exit, however, wasn’t on the immediate horizon.
“But that moment hasn’t come yet.”
“No one put more thought and love into this than I did,” he toldEntertainment Tonight.
Maroon 5 decided to go ahead, though Levine acknowledged that the decision was unpopular.
“We would like to move on from it and speak through the music.”
Unfortunately, the band’s halftime show went viral online, and not for the music.
When he took off his shirt, fans realizedLevine had many more tattoosthan they’d previously noticed.
That September, model Sumner Stroh took toTikTokto claim that she had a year-long affair with Levine.
Like, it blows my mind.”
Stroh also claimed that Levine promised to name his next child after her.
When the allegations broke, Levine responded on his Instagram story (viaUs Weekly).
“In certain instances, it became inappropriate,” he confessed.
“I have addressed that and taken proactive steps to remedy this with my family.
My wife and my family is all I care about in this world.
I will never make it again.”
Levine, of course, has a frequently stated aversion to divorce.
According to an insider who spoke withUs Weekly, Levine and Behati Prinsloo worked things out.
That is, until he stepped away in 2019.
“I was just constantly working for so many years.
“I’m well-rested.
I’m ready to go,” he said.
“I’m a little nervous,” he added, laughing, “I’m not nervous.
But I’m so excited.”
The source questioned whether Levine’s behavior would be different this time.
“Maybe Adam will change,” they said.
