From an early age, Maroon5 frontman Adam Levine thrived on angst. Indeed, during an interview with Rolling Stone magazine one day, Levine made an unusual request. "Can you make me look like an arrogant prick in this article?" he asked politely. "Then I can get introverted and lock myself in a hotel room and write songs about how I've ruined our career."
[He was thirteen years old.]
Sources
Rolling Stone, Oct. 30, 2003, p. 30