Now that Maroon 5 has, you know, "made it," it's interesting to consider whether they have ambitions to make an impact on pop-culture, since just about all their idols managed to shake up how music sounded for decades to come. But Levine is quick to dismiss what his band's success, or future success, might mean.
"Bands get big and they kind of develop these grandiose opinions of themselves — [but] let's backpedal for a minute," he says. "We craft songs, we love to play them, and we hope to inspire people and make them smile or make them think or make them do whatever they're going to do.
"But," he adds, "we're certainly not putting a flag anywhere. As far as any kind of impact, we won't know that for 20 years. Right now, we just have to make the right decisions and write good songs that people love and see what happens."
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