It wasn't all work and no play for Maxwell while he rehearsed in Toronto for the past two weeks for his first-ever arena tour which kicked off at the Air Canada Centre last night.

The neo-soul singer squeezed in U2's second show at the Rogers Centre last Thursday night and even got to meet frontman Bono before he took the stage.

"I got the call that he wanted to meet me. We had already met. We met in New York City one time. He thought one of my cars was his. He was trying to get into my car. I had a car, a Mercedes, outside, and he thought it was his car. It was the funniest thing because he remembered. He was like, 'Yeah, I remember you. I was trying to get into your car.' I was going to give him the car. Take the car!"

Both men were emerging from the now defunct Hit Factory in New York City when the car mixup occurred.

"He's amazing," said Maxwell of their meeting again last Thursday in Toronto. "And he came out singing Pretty Wings (Maxwell's new single) when we met backstage before the show. Then he went on and before One, he mentioned the song, and myself, but I wasn't there to hear it unfortunately because I was heading downstairs in an elevator trying to get closer to that stage that had just expanded."