Florence Welch

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel…

— 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…

— 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…

— Florence Welch

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

— Florence Welch

It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

— Florence Welch

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

— Florence Welch

I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't…

— Florence Welch

It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

— Florence Welch

“And I started to hear it again But this time it wasn't the end And the room is so quiet, Oh oh…

— Florence Welch

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid…

— 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…

— Florence Welch

It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he…

— 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…

— Florence Welch

I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed…

— Florence Welch

When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny…

— Florence Welch

I was a heavy heart to carry My beloved was weighed down My arms around his neck My fingers laced to crown.…

— Florence Welch

I tend to lose myself in the moment. I’m not very good at holding back. I don’t know how to do this…

— Florence Welch

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

— 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 try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and…

— Florence Welch

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

— Florence Welch

For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed

— Florence Welch

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that…

— Florence Welch

If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's…

— Florence Welch

When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and…

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited.…

— Florence Welch

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

— Florence Welch

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic…

— Florence Welch

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

— Florence Welch

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

— 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…

— 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,…

— Florence Welch

Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress…

— Florence Welch

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their…

— Florence Welch

Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost…

— 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…

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

— Florence Welch

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

— Florence Welch