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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. "

St. Lucia

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St. Lucia

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Amazing

" I was really into Radiohead and Live. "

" You can only absorb when you look back at photos: like when we played Coachella, and there are thousands of people in the audience, and you just walk on stage. "

" 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. "

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

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Elements

" 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. "

" 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. "

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St. Lucia

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Things

" 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. "

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

" I basically work all the time. "

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

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

" We don't put limits on ourselves. "

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

" When 'OK Computer' came out, that was so crazily different from anything that I'd ever heard; it was just amazing. "

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" 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. "