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" I like to make bombueti, which is basically the South African national dish. It's basically a South African curry shepherd's pie kind of thing. "
St. Lucia
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" 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.' "
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" My secret talent is doing the chipmunk voice. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The '80s definitely influence my music in a big way. "
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" I was really into Radiohead and Live. "
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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. "
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" We don't put limits on ourselves. "
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" I was in this boys' choir for five years, when I was 10 until 15. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Images and music are very connected. "
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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. "
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" The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that I got from working as a team where everyone had equal say... ended up with compromised, watered-down results. "
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" You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else. "
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" 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. "
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" I was always very ambitious from a young age. "
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" I will readily confess that I'm a coffee addict. "
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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. "
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" We like to try doing new things in the shows and doing things that we haven't done before. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't think I necessarily write about dark things. "
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" It sounds kind of cliche, and a lot of people say it about our music, but I think a good place to hear our music for the first time is on vacation, or somewhere warm, on the beach or something like that. "
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" I like my music to transport people somewhere. "
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" I like confusing people and challenging myself. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something. "
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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. "
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