Like, in retrospect, this whole Mini-Album is about itself, and the process of letting go of the fear of what people will think about the music or of me or whatever and just putting it out there. But none of that was intentional at all. St. Lucia More Quotes by St. Lucia More Quotes From St. Lucia I am home grown St. Lucian. Born in 1980 I have spent most of my life on this island. Apart from the few summers I spent in the United States I spent most of my time in my homeland. St. Lucia summer islands home I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff. St. Lucia mind trying art As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism. St. Lucia style teacher art I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork. I forgot to mention that my course of study at the Art Institute is BSC in Media Arts and Animation. St. Lucia media people art [I] was always my dream to attend the Art Institute. I have always had this zeal to become the best that I can be and I saw that this institution will act as an avenue to me achieving that goal. I applied to the institution and got accepted based on my impressive portfolio. St. Lucia goal dream art I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting. St. Lucia digital media art I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me. St. Lucia immense-love drawing art Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens. St. Lucia see wander festivals 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. St. Lucia you quality work relationship 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. St. Lucia think you important mind I will readily confess that I'm a coffee addict. St. Lucia confess will addict coffee 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. St. Lucia road time attention life 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. St. Lucia know earth fire wind 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. St. Lucia mess writing long ideas 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. St. Lucia name eyes place me 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. St. Lucia my-life parents me life 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. St. Lucia your own things music 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. St. Lucia music dance nature beautiful I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones. St. Lucia songs many big love It took a while of performing and pushing the boundaries and starting to involve the audience to feel comfortable. St. Lucia feel audience comfortable boundaries
