After the overnight multi-platinum success of the Counting Crows debut album ("August and Everything After"). Adam decided to find a real job for a "reality check" between albums. So he bartended at the The Viper Room in Hollywood, which at the time was still owned by Johnny Depp.
Had a brief relationship with actress Emmy Rossum.
Has had a long-time close friendship with actress Mary-Louise Parker. Their birthdays are a day apart: he was born on August 1, 1964, she was born on August 2, 1964.