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" I'm always very cautious, because I don't want St. Lucia to turn out like everything else. I want to have a personality and be unique in some way that maybe limits our appeal to everyone in the world but makes us more special in some way. "

St. Lucia

Want

Personality

Limits

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

St. Lucia

Just

Elements

" 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. "

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

" I like confusing people and challenging myself. "

St. Lucia

Confusing

Myself

" With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right. "

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" 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. "

St. Lucia

Music

Feel Good

" It's important to let things go. "

St. Lucia

Important

Things

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I just believe that you have to allow each other to grow in the way you're meant to grow and not be afraid of losing that person, because if you grow apart, then you grow apart, and that's the way it was meant to be. "

" When 'OK Computer' came out, that was so crazily different from anything that I'd ever heard; it was just amazing. "

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

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St. Lucia

People

Somewhere

" 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 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. "

" St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this nostalgic, hazy vibe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

St. Lucia

Life

Weird

" St. Lucia was a place were we used to go on vacation - not every year, but we went there a couple of times. I remember the last time that I went there, I was really small, and the only memory that I have is that my dad was going swimming or fishing one day - and I really, really wanted to go - but I was too young. "