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" Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting. "

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" I don't think I necessarily write about dark things. "

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

" 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. "

" My secret talent is doing the chipmunk voice. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" One of the secrets of having a long-term relationship is realizing that even if you think the other person's great, at some point, they're going to mess up and annoy you. "

" We love the idea of having a really great lighting production. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I left the country to study in the U.K., I suddenly realized, and I'm still realizing, how much other stuff is out there - like My Bloody Valentine, who millions of people are passionate about, but they're still considered an 'underground' band. "

" 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. "

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

" The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa. "

" I feel like people associate us with the tropical Hawaiian print because, for a long time, we were wearing a lot of bright colors to exert our personality. "

" 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. "

" The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir. "

" 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

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

" We have such an energetic live show. We have so much fun onstage. We swap instruments. We might possibly be the sweatiest band in the business. "

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

" I was really into Radiohead and Live. "

" In the past, I never wrote any love songs. That was not my thing. "