[on creating his first song] "I was on the train. I was on the J line. And I was sitting there humming this thing and it was brand new. It just stunned me because it was like, "Wow! I'm actually singing something that no one has ever written, no one's ever done, with words that no one's ever had but me. I was 15 years old." -- Unfold, 1999

* The 300+ songs Maxwell penned have laid foundation to most of his released works.

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