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" I feel like a lot of bands have done amazing covers, but whenever we start working on it, whenever we try it in rehearsal, it never feels right for me to do the song. "

St. Lucia

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

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

" St. Lucia was a place were we used to go on vacation - not every year, but we went there a couple of times. I remember the last time that I went there, I was really small, and the only memory that I have is that my dad was going swimming or fishing one day - and I really, really wanted to go - but I was too young. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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?' "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I really believe in albums, even though some people believe the year of the album has passed. I love singular pop songs or tracks, but what really affects me most deeply is if there's an hour of music or 45 minutes of music that flows really well and tells a story. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" I was really into Radiohead and Live. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them. "

" 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. "

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

" It's important to let things go. "

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