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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Images and music are very connected. "

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

" 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. "

" My secret talent is doing the chipmunk voice. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I basically work all the time. "

" I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about. "

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

" We don't put limits on ourselves. "

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

" We have such an energetic live show. We have so much fun onstage. We swap instruments. We might possibly be the sweatiest band in the business. "

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

" 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 was really into Radiohead and Live. "

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

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