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" 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. "

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" My secret talent is doing the chipmunk voice. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I will readily confess that I'm a coffee addict. "

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

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

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

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

" I was really into Radiohead and Live. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" It took a while of performing and pushing the boundaries and starting to involve the audience to feel comfortable. "

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

" It's important to let things go. "

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

" 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 had to embrace just basically writing and recording on my laptop. On long drives through the Rockies, I would take my laptop and mess around with ideas and make rough sketches of songs. "