Top 50 St. Lucia Quotes

My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something.

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

With my own stuff, I’ve always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

At a festival, some people are just there because they’re waiting for, like, Calvin Harris to come on later.

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

I feel like Hawaiian shirts have definitely made a comeback.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It’s important to let things go.

I was always very ambitious from a young age.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I like my music to transport people somewhere.

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

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

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

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

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.

You can’t be 100 percent selfish when you’re working with somebody else.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Images and music are very connected.

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?’

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 guess you could say it’s one of the great equalizers: that it just feels good to be bad.

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

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

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 like confusing people and challenging myself.

I used to do this huge jump off the drum riser. I had a good way of landing so I wouldn’t hurt myself, but then one time, I landed on my elbow.

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’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.

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

We don’t put limits on ourselves.

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.’

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.