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

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" 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. "

" The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on. "

" 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 basically work all the time. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I was really into Radiohead and Live. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You can only absorb when you look back at photos: like when we played Coachella, and there are thousands of people in the audience, and you just walk on stage. "

" On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It's important to let things go. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Images and music are very connected. "