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" The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music. "

St. Lucia

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St. Lucia

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

" I like my music to transport people somewhere. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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 like to make bombueti, which is basically the South African national dish. It's basically a South African curry shepherd's pie kind of thing. "

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St. Lucia

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Weird

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

" I'm kind of a little allergic to that whole, 'Let's go to L.A. and write a bunch of hits.' "

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