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" I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel like Hawaiian shirts have definitely made a comeback. "

" Nothing beats looking out to a sweaty, packed house full of fans. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We don't put limits on ourselves. "

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

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

" I like my music to transport people somewhere. "

" 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. "

" I was born in South Africa and lived there until I was 19. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was in this boys' choir for five years, when I was 10 until 15. "

" When I'm making the music, the songs that I get most excited about definitely make me feel good, but often, it's a really good feeling combined with some kind of melancholy element. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "