Florence Welch

You can't choose what stays and what stays away.

— 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

I don't want your future I don't need your past One bright moment Is all I ask

— Florence Welch

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

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

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think…

— Florence Welch

“Broke your jaw once before Spilt your blood upon the floor You broke my leg in return So let's sit back and…

— Florence Welch

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

— 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

“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…

— 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

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.

— Florence Welch

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

— Florence Welch

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

— 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

It's always darkness before the dawn.

— Florence Welch

I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.

— 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

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

— Florence Welch

I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like,…

— 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

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show…

— Florence Welch

Everything has such order and everyone is so focused on doing what they're doing that no one ever pays attention to you…

— 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

You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.

— Florence Welch