I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music. — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine. — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors,… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried.… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body.… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way. — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I tend to lose myself in the moment. I’m not very good at holding back. I don’t know how to do this without feeling… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I don't want your future I don't need your past One bright moment Is all I ask — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
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… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
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,… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it.… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
“Broke your jaw once before Spilt your blood upon the floor You broke my leg in return So let's sit back and watch the… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second. — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
“Holy water cannot help you now A thousand armies couldn’t keep me out See, I’ve come to burn your kingdom down I’ve come to… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he would direct… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful. — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
