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" To me, St. Lucia isn't just purely feel-good; there are these other juxtaposed elements as well. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" It sounds kind of cliche, and a lot of people say it about our music, but I think a good place to hear our music for the first time is on vacation, or somewhere warm, on the beach or something like that. "

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

" 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. "

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