Top 170 Quotes & Sayings by St. Lucia
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
I think the job of the first single is kind of like being a diplomat for a country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One of the secrets of having a long-term relationship is realizing that even if you think the other person's great, at some point, they're going to mess up and annoy you.
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.
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.
I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.
I was always very ambitious from a young age.
You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else.
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 really believe in albums, even though some people believe the year of the album has passed. I love singular pop songs or tracks, but what really affects me most deeply is if there's an hour of music or 45 minutes of music that flows really well and tells a story.
My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something.
It's pretty rare that something I've written is close to something that's pre-existed.
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 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.
Nothing beats looking out to a sweaty, packed house full of fans.
With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.
I will readily confess that I'm a coffee addict.
I like my music to transport people somewhere.
My secret talent is doing the chipmunk voice.
It is funny to me that people think of St. Lucia as this, like, feel-good band.
We don't put limits on ourselves.
I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so I went back to some of the music I grew up with, like music from South Africa and the '80s stuff. I stopped suppressing it, and I stopped trying to be cool.
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.
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.
The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
It took a while of performing and pushing the boundaries and starting to involve the audience to feel comfortable.
When I left the country to study in the U.K., I suddenly realized, and I'm still realizing, how much other stuff is out there - like My Bloody Valentine, who millions of people are passionate about, but they're still considered an 'underground' band.
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.
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.
I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years of my life there. Being a kid, my early musical experiences were there.
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.
To me, St. Lucia isn't just purely feel-good; there are these other juxtaposed elements as well.
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 guess you could say it's one of the great equalizers: that it just feels good to be bad.
I basically work all the time.
I'm kind of a little allergic to that whole, 'Let's go to L.A. and write a bunch of hits.'
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.
The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music.
I like to make bombueti, which is basically the South African national dish. It's basically a South African curry shepherd's pie kind of thing.
When 'OK Computer' came out, that was so crazily different from anything that I'd ever heard; it was just amazing.
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.'
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.
I was born in South Africa and lived there until I was 19.
I like confusing people and challenging myself.
I was in this boys' choir for five years, when I was 10 until 15.
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.
I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.
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.
When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.
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.
The '80s definitely influence my music in a big way.
Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens.
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.
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.
I don't think I necessarily write about dark things.
The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.
I'm always very cautious, because I don't want St. Lucia to turn out like everything else. I want to have a personality and be unique in some way that maybe limits our appeal to everyone in the world but makes us more special in some way.
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