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" I think the job of the first single is kind of like being a diplomat for a country. "
St. Lucia
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones. "
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Obliged
Big
Songs
" On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing. "
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" 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
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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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Love
Going
Playing
" 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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Life
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" You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else. "
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" To me, St. Lucia isn't just purely feel-good; there are these other juxtaposed elements as well. "
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Me
Just
Elements
" 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. "
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Country
" My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something. "
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Train
Something
" 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. "
St. Lucia
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" I used to do this huge jump off the drum riser. I had a good way of landing so I wouldn't hurt myself, but then one time, I landed on my elbow. "
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Way
Time
Myself
" 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. "
St. Lucia
Time
Colors
Personality
" 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
Mess
" 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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" When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it. "
St. Lucia
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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. "
St. Lucia
Vacation
Beach
Good
" I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock. "
St. Lucia
Always
Like
Things
" It took a while of performing and pushing the boundaries and starting to involve the audience to feel comfortable. "
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Comfortable
Starting
Audience
" It's pretty rare that something I've written is close to something that's pre-existed. "
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Written
Close
Pretty
" I was always very ambitious from a young age. "
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Always
Ambitious
Age
" 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. "
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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. "
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Ever
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" It's important to let things go. "
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Important
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Go
" 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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" 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?' "
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" The album that really got me interested in how to create weird sounds, and pretty much changed my life, was 'OK Computer.' Funnily enough, my parents bought it for me because it was recommended to them, and the first 2 times I heard it, I absolutely hated it. "
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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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Thought
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