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" 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

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" I like confusing people and challenging myself. "

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Confusing

Myself

" 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. "

" 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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Down

Good

" I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones. "

" 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. "

" At a festival, some people are just there because they're waiting for, like, Calvin Harris to come on later. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Try

New

" 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?' "

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

" My secret talent is doing the chipmunk voice. "

" Images and music are very connected. "

" 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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Start

Amazing

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

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Just

Elements

" I'm kind of a little allergic to that whole, 'Let's go to L.A. and write a bunch of hits.' "

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Whole

Kind

" I think the job of the first single is kind of like being a diplomat for a country. "

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Single

Kind

" 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. "

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Written

Pretty

" 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 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. "