All my formative years were along a shopping strip with a cabaret downstairs. That was my life, and that's the life I still try and live now. He also lives with his wife, Diana Dao, and his toddler son, Merc, who, true to family form, was grabbing the microphone from Dad at the Black Cat opening and confidently burbling, pre-speech, to the crowd. Maas may not believe in the perfect Arnotts family, but somewhere along the way he was seduced by the smell of baking bread. It was romantic.
Fresh bread is very sexy.
Maybe it was growing up above a cabaret, watching and feeding on the warmth exchanged between the performer and their audience, or maybe it was having to fend for himself as a child, but Henry Maas is incredibly skilled at surviving, by creating soft, stylish, sophisticated worlds into which he can escape. He doesn't much like the harsh, real world, and isn't particularly interested in it, either. I love living in a fantasy. I treat everything that I do as a little game. I love to play games.