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A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness and depth. That's what I strive for in my music. I want to create something that's like a longform statement.
At a festival, some people are just there because they're waiting for, like, Calvin Harris to come on later.
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?'
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.
Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens.
Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting.
I always like to push the extremes of what anybody thinks St. Lucia is.
I basically work all the time.
I don't think I necessarily write about dark things.
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.
I feel like Hawaiian shirts have definitely made a comeback.
I feel like people associate us with the tropical Hawaiian print because, for a long time, we were wearing a lot of bright colors to exert our personality.
I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain things in your life, and as you get older, you think about your parents getting older.
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.
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 guess you could say it's one of the great equalizers: that it just feels good to be bad.
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.
I just believe that you have to allow each other to grow in the way you're meant to grow and not be afraid of losing that person, because if you grow apart, then you grow apart, and that's the way it was meant to be.
I like confusing people and challenging myself.
I like my music to transport people somewhere.
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