Maxwell on KTB/"This Woman's Work"

[Llovich@aol.com]

The following is an excerpt from an interview headlined "R&B's New Love Man
Wants To Show Some Staying Power" By Gary Graff  that appeared on the Reuter
newsline July 22: 

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Maxwell agreed to do the "MTV Unplugged" session as a chance to re-arrange
some of the "Urban Hang Suite" songs -- particularly a hot jam on "Gotta Get
Closer" -- and to cover "This Woman's Work," a song by British songstress
Kate Bush. 

"I was trying to put together a song that represented my understanding, in
some way, of what women represent and what they go through," explains
Maxwell, who has received praise for his rendition from Bush. 

"I think that's what 'This Woman's Work' represented. I couldn't have written
a song like that because I'm not a woman, and an exceptional woman wrote it
already. I just kind of took it." 
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Quick questions on the above: 

1. When did Kate praise his rendition?

2. Although it's kind that he called Kate "an exceptional woman," couldn't he
have said "an exceptional songwriter" or performer or something?

VanceMan
"Just saying it can even make it happen ...
All I have to do is say it for you."
-- Kate Bush, "Cloudbusting"