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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I basically work all the time. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else. "

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

" I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" I was always very ambitious from a young age. "

" When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it. "

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

" 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. "

Working Together

" I was really into Radiohead and Live. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock. "

" My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 my music to transport people somewhere. "