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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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You

Working Together

" I don't think I necessarily write about dark things. "

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

St. Lucia

Whole

Kind

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

St. Lucia

Down

Good

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

" 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. "

" I feel like a lot of bands have done amazing covers, but whenever we start working on it, whenever we try it in rehearsal, it never feels right for me to do the song. "

St. Lucia

Start

Amazing

" You can hear 'Human Nature' all over our song 'Elevate.' It's an amazing song. That hooky arpeggio in the beginning is great. Unlike most Michael Jackson ballads, even though I'm a huge Michael Jackson fan, this song is kind of restrained. It's not a huge, crazy song you can dance to - it's just this beautiful piece of music. "

" 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

" 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

" We don't put limits on ourselves. "

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

" 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. "

" The '80s definitely influence my music in a big way. "

" 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 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. "

" 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

Used

Music

" 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. "

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Music

Love

" 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. "

" We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most difficult part is that time passes by so quickly. It's hard to pay attention to your normal life because shows are all-encompassing. "

" I like confusing people and challenging myself. "

St. Lucia

Confusing

Myself

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

" I was really into Radiohead and Live. "

" My secret talent is doing the chipmunk voice. "

" I guess you could say it's one of the great equalizers: that it just feels good to be bad. "

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

" 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. "

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