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" At a festival, some people are just there because they're waiting for, like, Calvin Harris to come on later. "

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" I'm kind of a little allergic to that whole, 'Let's go to L.A. and write a bunch of hits.' "

" On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing. "

" I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years of my life there. Being a kid, my early musical experiences were there. "

" I always like to push the extremes of what anybody thinks St. Lucia is. "

" It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you're talking about is work, and you never leave that space. "

Working Together

" I used to do this huge jump off the drum riser. I had a good way of landing so I wouldn't hurt myself, but then one time, I landed on my elbow. "

" I find that when I'm under pressure, I work really well, but then you have those days where you sleep for four hours because you drive to a venue overnight and arrive there the next day, and you're cranky and not dealing with it very well. "

" The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that I got from working as a team where everyone had equal say... ended up with compromised, watered-down results. "

" I basically work all the time. "

" It took a while of performing and pushing the boundaries and starting to involve the audience to feel comfortable. "

" With Prince especially... he was a really great songwriter and keyboardist and singer and was so good at so many different things, you couldn't pin him down. That really inspires me. "

" One of my favorite things is producing other artists because, in many ways, it's a lot more freeing than working on your own music. "

" I feel like Hawaiian shirts have definitely made a comeback. "

" With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right. "

" I was always very ambitious from a young age. "

" The '80s definitely influence my music in a big way. "

" I guess you could say it's one of the great equalizers: that it just feels good to be bad. "

" St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this nostalgic, hazy vibe. "

" The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.' "

" When you work together in a creative way, you have to be less selfish about your ideas and learn to let both parties feel valued. Of course, that's also a really great quality to have in a relationship, too. "

" I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so I went back to some of the music I grew up with, like music from South Africa and the '80s stuff. I stopped suppressing it, and I stopped trying to be cool. "

" Everyone knows Earth, Wind & Fire. We know 'September,' all the big sort of hits from going out and dancing and stuff. When I was developing St. Lucia, I really started listening a little bit deeper, listening back to their stuff from the '70s and '80s, and really dug into it. "

" I think the job of the first single is kind of like being a diplomat for a country. "

" I was born in South Africa and lived there until I was 19. "

" To me, St. Lucia isn't just purely feel-good; there are these other juxtaposed elements as well. "

" I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea. "

" A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness and depth. That's what I strive for in my music. I want to create something that's like a longform statement. "

" When I'm making the music, the songs that I get most excited about definitely make me feel good, but often, it's a really good feeling combined with some kind of melancholy element. "

" We don't put limits on ourselves. "

" We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on. "