Adam Levine has been very chatty as of late, letting the general public in on all sorts of personal information including his revelation that he believes he is very deserving of all of his success.

However, the star has gone a little deeper in revealing how experimenting with drugs in his past provided a "valuable and beneficial" life lesson for the singer. The Maroon 5 front-man says,

"I definitely, firmly believe that the experience I had on mushrooms made me understand certain things about myself that I probably wouldn't have otherwise...What I took away from that experience was valuable and beneficial to me. It really forced me to look at myself."

Adam went on to say that taking mushrooms helped him to reconnect with the "wonderment" he experienced as a child and began to lose in adulthood. The singer continued,

"It's so corny to say but it's true; you just get in touch with the wonderment you have as a kid that you tend to lose. Obviously if you abuse a drug like that you'll never come back and end up as a f**king psychotic maniac."

Adam has enjoyed enormous success in his band Maroon 5, but unlike some bands of today, he's not quick to dispel their rapid, mainstreamsuccessas a cop-out. The star dismissed the notion that mainstream recognition is "uncool", saying,

"Aspiring to pop success is not a bad thing...Some bands seem to be shy about going for it. For a time, it became uncool to try...When we were making Overexposed, we were embracing who we are - a band that plays pop."

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Adam Levine describes past drug use as "valuable, beneficial experience"