Florence Welch Quotes

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

Florence Welch

English singer

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

Florence Welch

English singer

I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

Florence Welch

English singer

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

English singer

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

English singer

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

English singer

My mum wanted me to go to university.

Florence Welch

English singer

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

English singer

I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

Florence Welch

English singer

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

Florence Welch

English singer

When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.

Florence Welch

English singer

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

English singer

I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

Florence Welch

English singer

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

Florence Welch

English singer

When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

Florence Welch

English singer

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

Florence Welch

English singer

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

English singer

I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?

Florence Welch

English singer

I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.

Florence Welch

English singer

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

Florence Welch

English singer

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