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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I like my music to transport people somewhere. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that I got from working as a team where everyone had equal say... ended up with compromised, watered-down results. "

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

" My secret talent is doing the chipmunk voice. "

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

" 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. "

" I basically work all the time. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We don't put limits on ourselves. "