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. St. Lucia Read Quote
I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock. St. Lucia Read Quote
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. St. Lucia Read Quote
It’s pretty rare that something I’ve written is close to something that’s pre-existed. St. Lucia Read Quote
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. St. Lucia Read Quote
I’m kind of a little allergic to that whole, ‘Let’s go to L.A. and write a bunch of hits.’ St. Lucia Read Quote
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. St. Lucia Read Quote
My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something. St. Lucia Read Quote
The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys’ choir. St. Lucia Read Quote
