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" It took a while of performing and pushing the boundaries and starting to involve the audience to feel comfortable. "

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

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" I like confusing people and challenging myself. "

" Images and music are very connected. "

" We love the idea of having a really great lighting production. "

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

" I always like to push the extremes of what anybody thinks St. Lucia is. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's pretty rare that something I've written is close to something that's pre-existed. "

" 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. "

" You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else. "

" 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. "

" I was always very ambitious from a young age. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, pre-1994 was still apartheid, so we didn't get a lot the subversive music from the States or from the U.K. A lot of the music we would get was the poppiest pop music, so I've never really had a bad association it. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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. "