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

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" I used to do this huge jump off the drum riser. I had a good way of landing so I wouldn't hurt myself, but then one time, I landed on my elbow. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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" I like my music to transport people somewhere. "

" 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. "

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" It's important to let things go. "

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" We don't put limits on ourselves. "