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We don't put limits on ourselves.
Images and music are very connected.
I was really into Radiohead and Live.
I was always very ambitious from a young age.
I like my music to transport people somewhere.
I like confusing people and challenging myself.
I will readily confess that I'm a coffee addict.
We should not let negative influences get to us.
The '80s definitely influence my music in a big way.
I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.
I was born in South Africa and lived there until I was 19.
I feel like Hawaiian shirts have definitely made a comeback.
From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.
We love the idea of having a really great lighting production.
I was in this boys' choir for five years, when I was 10 until 15.
Nothing beats looking out to a sweaty, packed house full of fans.
In the past, I never wrote any love songs. That was not my thing.
I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.
I always like to push the extremes of what anybody thinks St. Lucia is.
When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.
The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.
Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.
Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens.
I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.
On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing.
I think the job of the first single is kind of like being a diplomat for a country.
What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.
I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.
It's pretty rare that something I've written is close to something that's pre-existed.
Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting.
World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.
I'm kind of a little allergic to that whole, 'Let's go to L.A. and write a bunch of hits.'
We like to try doing new things in the shows and doing things that we haven't done before.
I guess you could say it's one of the great equalizers: that it just feels good to be bad.
You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.
Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.
The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something.
To me, St. Lucia isn't just purely feel-good; there are these other juxtaposed elements as well.
Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.
A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.
I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.
I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.
I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.
It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.
As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.
At a festival, some people are just there because they're waiting for, like, Calvin Harris to come on later.
I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.
With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.