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

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

" 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. "

" Images and music are very connected. "

" The '80s definitely influence my music in a big way. "

" 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. "

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

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

" On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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