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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. "
St. Lucia
Writing
Embrace
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" 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
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Create
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" 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. "
St. Lucia
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Think
" 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. "
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" Nothing beats looking out to a sweaty, packed house full of fans. "
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" Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting. "
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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. "
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" I feel like Hawaiian shirts have definitely made a comeback. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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?' "
St. Lucia
Happy
Choices
Think
" 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. "
St. Lucia
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Body
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" The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir. "
St. Lucia
Ever
States
Came
" 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. "
St. Lucia
Used
Music
More
" We don't put limits on ourselves. "
St. Lucia
Limits
Ourselves
Put
" I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so I went back to some of the music I grew up with, like music from South Africa and the '80s stuff. I stopped suppressing it, and I stopped trying to be cool. "
St. Lucia
Music
Like
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" 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. "
St. Lucia
Music
Me
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" It's pretty rare that something I've written is close to something that's pre-existed. "
St. Lucia
Written
Close
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" 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. "
St. Lucia
Music
Beautiful
Nature
" I guess you could say it's one of the great equalizers: that it just feels good to be bad. "
St. Lucia
Say
Good
Great
" Everyone knows Earth, Wind & Fire. We know 'September,' all the big sort of hits from going out and dancing and stuff. When I was developing St. Lucia, I really started listening a little bit deeper, listening back to their stuff from the '70s and '80s, and really dug into it. "
St. Lucia
Fire
Listening
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" I always like to push the extremes of what anybody thinks St. Lucia is. "
St. Lucia
Always
Thinks
Push
" 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. "
St. Lucia
Pen
Name
Me
" I like my music to transport people somewhere. "
St. Lucia
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Like
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" 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. "
St. Lucia
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Sad
Positive
" 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. "
St. Lucia
Space
Way
Music
" We like to try doing new things in the shows and doing things that we haven't done before. "
St. Lucia
Like
Try
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" I basically work all the time. "
St. Lucia
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" The upside to doing commercials is you have to work in a lot of different genres and make stuff that you never thought you'd be making. "
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Never
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Upside
" In the past, I never wrote any love songs. That was not my thing. "
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Never
Love
" Images and music are very connected. "
St. Lucia
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Images
Music