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" My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something. "

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" I like my music to transport people somewhere. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't think I necessarily write about dark things. "

" I was really into Radiohead and Live. "

" We don't put limits on ourselves. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most difficult part is that time passes by so quickly. It's hard to pay attention to your normal life because shows are all-encompassing. "

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

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

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

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