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

" Nothing beats looking out to a sweaty, packed house full of fans. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain things in your life, and as you get older, you think about your parents getting older. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel like Hawaiian shirts have definitely made a comeback. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When you work together in a creative way, you have to be less selfish about your ideas and learn to let both parties feel valued. Of course, that's also a really great quality to have in a relationship, too. "

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

" It's pretty rare that something I've written is close to something that's pre-existed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just believe that you have to allow each other to grow in the way you're meant to grow and not be afraid of losing that person, because if you grow apart, then you grow apart, and that's the way it was meant to be. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" One of my favorite things is producing other artists because, in many ways, it's a lot more freeing than working on your own music. "

" When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them. "

" 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 basically work all the time. "