The Maroon 5 singer told Details that after growing up around a lot of females it "seemed very natural to [him] to talk to girls".
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However, he defended his romantic past, insisting that it does not mean he was disrespectful to women.
"There's two kinds of men," he said. "There are men who are f**king misogynist pigs, and then there are men who just really love women, who think they're the most amazing people in the world.
"And that's me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous, and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much."
Levine also revealed that he decided to appear as a coach on The Voice because he "felt a little misrepresented in the world".
"I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls," he said. "A little bit of a bimbo. Maybe I was kind of a bimbo!
"I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that's fine, no problem with that. But I wanted to create a little balance. When the show came around, I thought, 'People now know that I have a brain'."
Jennifer Love Hewitt recently admitted that she has a crush on Levine, who split from his girlfriend Anne Vyalitsyna earlier this year.
