High above Manhattan in the Rock Star Suite of the Hard Rock Hotel New York, Adam Levine of Maroon 5 joins us for an Audacy Check In to talk about the upcoming album, 'Love Is Like,' the secret to the band's longevity, and more.

'Love Is Like' will arrive everywhere on August 15, and Levine shares that after years of success he's ready to trust what naturally flows from within. "This time around, I just thought to myself, well, we've had a lot of hits. And we've been really lucky to have those hits, and in some cases we were more kind of quote unquote 'formulaic' than others," Adam admits. "But this time around, I really wanted to be as unformulaic as possible and just say, 'you know what? I'm gonna make the kind of music that just comes out of me naturally and we'll see what happens and we'll see where it lands."

"The band has been begging me to do this for a long time, since we stopped doing it," he laughs. "Since we started collaborating more."

Formula or not, Maroon 5 has been a constant for over 20 years, so there has to be something secret in the sauce, right?

"If there's one thing I think you need to have, is like you need to get along with the people you work with," Levine shares with Mike Adam. "I love my band and my band loves me and we've been through it, but at the end of the day we love each other and we support each other and I think if that's not there, if you're in a band, then it's over."

"We also just love performing. We love being a band, we love doing it and we love making music, so... If we're enjoying it and there's enjoyment there, that kind of connects to the 'we should all get along' thing. As long as that's the case and your core group is tight, you know, the rest of it will come and go and it'll ebb and flow. We've been bigger at certain times and not as big at other times and you have to understand that that's the case too. You can't always be on top, and chasing that too hard I think can sink you. So you just got to kind of go with it."

For more from Adam Levine, including his acting audition gone wrong, check out the full Audacy Check In with Mike Adam above.