“Knowing you’re appreciated for you as a person was something that was very easy to be into for a while. “I feel like I’ve relished these few years, where I got to kick it, where I got to meet girls who didn’t know who I was, where they would be like, ‘What’s your name?’ ” he said. But with his career still in its prime, he chilled for close to a decade. Max was one of R&B’s leading men when he first hit the scene, and considering how young he was and what he accomplished in such a short time span (his debut was released in 1996), he seemed destined to be one of the all-time greats. But the common things people take for granted, I never had for a long stretch, such as going out on the train.”

I don’t want to complain about my life, because I don’t want to sound crazy to a person that’s living a life. “It was a lot easier than I thought it was to enjoy. “It was a lot easier than I thought it would be,” he said about his prolonged vacation.

It’s been eight years since he released his last album. So he didn’t think about what the fans or his record label wanted.

“It’s hard to make good music when you’re thinking about what somebody wants you to do.” “The way I make good music, it’s not about what’s expected of me,” he said recently after a Manhattan reception for his upcoming CD. NEW YORK - Maxwell said you can’t just go up to a pregnant woman and say, “Blue eyes, red hair and a girl.” Well, the same is true for the neo-soul singer’s music. ‘You want to know somebody’s around you not because of what you could offer,’ he says of eight-year break.

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