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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on. "

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

" 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. "

" I was really into Radiohead and Live. "

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

" 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 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. "

" You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else. "

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

" I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones. "

" 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. "

" I just believe that you have to allow each other to grow in the way you're meant to grow and not be afraid of losing that person, because if you grow apart, then you grow apart, and that's the way it was meant to be. "

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

" 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. "

" Images and music are very connected. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "