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Florence Welch Quotes

I try to write lyrics so that they won’t age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

– Florence Welch

I can’t wait to get on stage, because there you don’t worry about whether you’ll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you’ll ever have another boyfriend again, you don’t worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.

– Florence Welch

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

– Florence Welch

I’d gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

– Florence Welch

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

– Florence Welch

‘Spectrum’ is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it’s a real euphoric, wailing tune. It’s kind of like a total house anthem, in a way, but it seems to be going down really well. We’ve got all the grunge kids going mad for disco house raves.

– Florence Welch

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

– Florence Welch

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

– Florence Welch

I’ve always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn’t a singer I’d probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I’m quite visually greedy. I can’t have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting… maybe I’m just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

– Florence Welch

I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.

– Florence Welch

During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.

– Florence Welch

You know, people always ask, ‘What are you like offstage?’ And I always say, ‘Well, I’m completely normal and mellow.’

– Florence Welch

I’m down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though – that didn’t go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.

– Florence Welch

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

– Florence Welch

Touring, and being in a band, it’s almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

– Florence Welch

My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There’s a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

– Florence Welch

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it’s an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

– Florence Welch

I’m quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I’d write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I’ve had to create my own way of writing, which isn’t typical. Everything’s a big crescendo.

– Florence Welch

I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I’m not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that’s saying hello to people and falling over.

– Florence Welch

I can’t ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom… I don’t think that it’s healthy.

– Florence Welch

I’ve just never been a tracksuit-wearer.

– Florence Welch

I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You’re using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.

– Florence Welch

I’m pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

– Florence Welch

When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

– Florence Welch

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

– Florence Welch

I’ve got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me – it’s incredible.

– Florence Welch

I’m completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

– Florence Welch

I feel things in quite an intense way. I’m not actually the most intense person.

– Florence Welch

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

– Florence Welch

When I’m singing I’m always trying to get to the highest point possible. I’d fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

– Florence Welch

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