Florence Welch
Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.Collection: Mean
I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it’s frustrating for the people around me. I’m vaguely functional, but there’s always something slightly off.Collection: Artist
It's always darkness before the dawn.Collection: Darkness
The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.Collection: Real
A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.Collection: Dream
Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.Collection: Normal
Where's my heart at? Aw. Um, in my chest. I think it's in there - on the right hand side. Sometimes it's in my mouth and sometimes I can feel it in my stomach, when I get really nervous. So it's pretty physical.Collection: Heart
I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.Collection: Thinking
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 everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.Collection: Feelings
I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'Collection: Running
For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose ideaCollection: Ideas
I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing.Collection: Girl
I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.Collection: Song
It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.Collection: People
I want people to get hit and caught by my music.Collection: People
I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.Collection: Jumping
I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.Collection: Thinking
My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.Collection: Religious
I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.Collection: Wall
I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Couple
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.Collection: Heartbroken
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.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Singing
I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.Collection: Choir
You live and you learn.Collection: Live And Learn
I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.Collection: Falling In Love
The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.Collection: Way
In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.Collection: Conversation
You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.Collection: Groups
Everything has such order and everyone is so focused on doing what they're doing that no one ever pays attention to you spinning and dancing around supermarkets. It's something you find in places like supermarkets and airports, where everything is really ordered. There's something about those places that makes you feel really anonymous.Collection: Airports
It's hard to dance with a devil on your back, So shake him off...Collection: Devil
When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Soul
I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.Collection: Thinking
I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.Collection: Drama
I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties.Collection: Party
I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me card »">birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.Collection: Birthday
It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he would direct the video for 'Spectrum' from the moment the song was written. I still can't believe it actually happened, and I'm completely overjoyed that he felt such a connection with the song.Collection: Dream