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

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

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

" I was really into Radiohead and Live. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like confusing people and challenging myself. "

" I find that when I'm under pressure, I work really well, but then you have those days where you sleep for four hours because you drive to a venue overnight and arrive there the next day, and you're cranky and not dealing with it very well. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Images and music are very connected. "

" The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.' "

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

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

" It's important to let things go. "

" I basically work all the time. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "