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

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" We don't put limits on ourselves. "

" 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. "

" I really believe in albums, even though some people believe the year of the album has passed. I love singular pop songs or tracks, but what really affects me most deeply is if there's an hour of music or 45 minutes of music that flows really well and tells a story. "

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

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

" I was really into Radiohead and Live. "

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

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

" 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 basically work all the time. "

" 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 is funny to me that people think of St. Lucia as this, like, feel-good band. "

" I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like my music to transport people somewhere. "

" 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. "

Working Together

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I used to do this huge jump off the drum riser. I had a good way of landing so I wouldn't hurt myself, but then one time, I landed on my elbow. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It's important to let things go. "