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" The album that really got me interested in how to create weird sounds, and pretty much changed my life, was 'OK Computer.' Funnily enough, my parents bought it for me because it was recommended to them, and the first 2 times I heard it, I absolutely hated it. "

St. Lucia

Life

Weird

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

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

" 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. "

" We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on. "

" I like confusing people and challenging myself. "

St. Lucia

Confusing

Myself

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

St. Lucia

Music

Back

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

St. Lucia

Single

Kind

" 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?' "

" St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this nostalgic, hazy vibe. "

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

" St. Lucia was a place were we used to go on vacation - not every year, but we went there a couple of times. I remember the last time that I went there, I was really small, and the only memory that I have is that my dad was going swimming or fishing one day - and I really, really wanted to go - but I was too young. "

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

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

" 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. "

St. Lucia

Music

Feel Good

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

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

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

St. Lucia

Band

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

" We don't put limits on ourselves. "

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

" 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. "

St. Lucia

Working

Your

" 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. "

St. Lucia

Pen

Name

" Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting. "

" 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. "

St. Lucia

Music

Love

" 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'm always very cautious, because I don't want St. Lucia to turn out like everything else. I want to have a personality and be unique in some way that maybe limits our appeal to everyone in the world but makes us more special in some way. "