Adam Levine Opens Up About Turning 40 in 2019: 'Bring It!'

Adam Levine is on the cover of the latest issue of Variety, out now.

Here’s what the 39-year-old The Voice star had to say…

On Maroon 5 playing the Super Bowl in 2019: “I’m still formulating a lot of things.”

On “Girls Like You”: “It was an 11th-hour addition. Starrah wrote just a verse and chorus, and I thought, this song is everything. I had to beg, like, ‘Guys, we’ve got to get this song on the record. I don’t know why, we just have to.’ Same thing happened with ‘Sugar,’ by the way. I’m good under pressure.”

On what connected him to the plight of women: “Having little girls. But being a male who is a prominent public figure is a very tricky place to be. There are dangerous waters to navigate. You always want to be on the right side of something you feel passionately about. I have two young daughters, and to think about them being mistreated at all — ever — made my blood boil. So we went for it because I felt that as long as I stayed close to my heart with this concept, I could never go wrong…in the video, I was doing it for my kids and my wife. If anyone doesn’t understand the intentions, f–k ’em.”

On turning 40 next year: “Bring it! I mean, I don’t know what the f–k else do I want? I’ve got a beautiful family, a beautiful wife, two beautiful babies, and I’ve got money in the bank, and I’m really happy with my career and my output and the person that I’ve become and the person that I hopefully will stay. S–t, it’s too daunting to imagine anything else. I feel like I’ve already achieved anything beyond my wildest dreams. Age is funny. When someone’s 26 and they talk shit, you’re like, “F–k you. You don’t know anything. You’re gonna be my age and will hate the person you were when you said these things…look, I did as well as I could with my young male brain. I didn’t get arrested. I didn’t go to prison. To me, 40 seemed like old age when I was 26. Hell, 26 seemed old when I was 23, so it’s all relative.”

For more from Adam, head to Variety.com.