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" 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. "

St. Lucia

Music

Feel Good

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Start

Amazing

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Single

Kind

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

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

" 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?' "

" St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this nostalgic, hazy vibe. "

" I always like to push the extremes of what anybody thinks St. Lucia is. "

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St. Lucia

Down

Good

" On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing. "

" 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. "

" 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 was really into Radiohead and Live. "

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

" 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. "

St. Lucia

Pie

Make

" It's important to let things go. "

St. Lucia

Important

Things

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