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.

Levine also owns a record label named "222 Records". On MTV News in 2002 Levine said: "That's when I started waking up to the whole hip hop R&B thing. The band has since gone on to achieve mainstream success and release three further albums It Won't Be Soon Before Long on May 2007Hands All Over on September 2010 and Overexposed on June 2012.

In 2012 Levine made his acting debut as a recurring character in the horror television show American Horror Story: Asylum the second season of the series. com to develop and design apparel and accessories collections. That same year Levine collaborated with Kmart and ShopYourWay.