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" Even though we're really, really happy with what we do, sometimes I think - as an adult, you think, 'Should I be more responsible with my life choices?' "

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" 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. "

" I had to embrace just basically writing and recording on my laptop. On long drives through the Rockies, I would take my laptop and mess around with ideas and make rough sketches of songs. "

" We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most difficult part is that time passes by so quickly. It's hard to pay attention to your normal life because shows are all-encompassing. "

" The upside to doing commercials is you have to work in a lot of different genres and make stuff that you never thought you'd be making. "

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

" The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music. "

" It is funny to me that people think of St. Lucia as this, like, feel-good band. "

" I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain things in your life, and as you get older, you think about your parents getting older. "

" I like confusing people and challenging myself. "

" Nothing beats looking out to a sweaty, packed house full of fans. "

" I will readily confess that I'm a coffee addict. "

" Images and music are very connected. "

" It's pretty rare that something I've written is close to something that's pre-existed. "

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

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

" 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'm always very cautious, because I don't want St. Lucia to turn out like everything else. I want to have a personality and be unique in some way that maybe limits our appeal to everyone in the world but makes us more special in some way. "

" It sounds kind of cliche, and a lot of people say it about our music, but I think a good place to hear our music for the first time is on vacation, or somewhere warm, on the beach or something like that. "

" We like to try doing new things in the shows and doing things that we haven't done before. "

" St. Lucia represents, for me, where I found myself musically once I stopped trying to be cool, in some way, and stopped stopping these guilty pleasure influences I had from coming through. "

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

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

" I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about. "

" My secret talent is doing the chipmunk voice. "

" I like to make bombueti, which is basically the South African national dish. It's basically a South African curry shepherd's pie kind of thing. "

" I'm very interested in how visual artists think because I think the way that I think about music is similar. I'm very inspired by aesthetics and space. "

" You can hear 'Human Nature' all over our song 'Elevate.' It's an amazing song. That hooky arpeggio in the beginning is great. Unlike most Michael Jackson ballads, even though I'm a huge Michael Jackson fan, this song is kind of restrained. It's not a huge, crazy song you can dance to - it's just this beautiful piece of music. "

" My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time. "

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

" Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens. "