Florence Welch Quotes

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 still got bloodlust.

I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

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

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

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

I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

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.

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

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

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

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

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

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

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

I wish to remain nameless And live without shame 'Cause what's in a name, Oh I still remain the same

It's hard to dance with a devil on your back, So shake him off...

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.

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

Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.

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

Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable.

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

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

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

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

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

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

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.