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South African - Musician

Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens.

See Wander Festivals Just

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.

Work Relationship You Great

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.

You Mind Think Writing

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

Coffee Will Confess Addict

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.

Life Time Road Attention

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.

Fire Wind Know Back

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.

Long Ideas Writing Mess

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.

Eyes Me Name Pen

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.

Life Me My Life Parents

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.

Music Your Own More

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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.

Nature Beautiful Music You

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

Love Big Songs Many

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

Feel Boundaries Audience Comfortable

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

City Choir First Ever

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.

Music Good Time People

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.'

Music Good Time You

My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.

Positive Sad Myself Moment

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.

Work Day You Sleep

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

Africa More Being Appreciated

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.

Myself Me Cool Way

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

Funny Me People Think

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.

Music Good Me Feel

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

Me Just Well Other

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

Born Africa I Was Born South Africa

St. Lucia was a place were we used to go on vacation - not every year, but we went there a couple of times. I remember the last time that I went there, I was really small, and the only memory that I have is that my dad was going swimming or fishing one day - and I really, really wanted to go - but I was too young.

Day Time Memory Dad

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

Music Way Influence Big

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