I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band. — 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 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 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
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching… — 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
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 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
I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package… — 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
It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he… — 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… — 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 was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name… — 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
When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
“This is a song for a scribbled out name And my love keeps writing again and again This is a song for… — 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
