Top 120 Florence Welch Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It’s hard to dance with the Devil on your back, So shake him off.”

— Florence Welch

2. “You live and you learn.”

— Florence Welch

3. “If you do something with your whole heart and it’s a mistake, you can live with that.”

— Florence Welch

4. “I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.”

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

7. “I am teaching myself how to be free.”

— Florence Welch

8. “I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.”

— Florence Welch

9. “Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.”

— Florence Welch

10. “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.”

— Florence Welch

11. “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.”

— Florence Welch

12. “On stage, you can use your emotions. It’s the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.”

— Florence Welch

13. “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.”

— Florence Welch

14. “I’m a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.”

— Florence Welch

15. “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.”

— Florence Welch

16. “My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.”

— Florence Welch

17. “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.”

— Florence Welch

18. “It’s always darkness before the dawn.”

— Florence Welch

19. “I’ve always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily – it’s just kind of instinct, really. You’ve got to channel your subconscious.”

— Florence Welch

20. “I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.”

— Florence Welch

21. “I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies – I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. ‘Dookie’ was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of ‘Nimrod’ and he’d heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.”

— Florence Welch

22. “I can’t wait to get on stage, because there you don’t worry about whether you’ll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you’ll ever have another boyfriend again, you don’t worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.”

— Florence Welch

23. “I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties.”

— Florence Welch

24. “Maybe I’ve always been more comfortable in chaos.”

— Florence Welch

25. “I’m sorry you couldn’t find me. I have been in the woods. I put myself there because I couldn’t be good. I have been running with foxes and running with crows and I have found myself a home where no one goes.”

— Florence Welch

26. “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.”

— Florence Welch

27. “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!’”

— Florence Welch

28. “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.”

— Florence Welch

29. “Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.”

— Florence Welch

30. “I’m down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though – that didn’t go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.”

— Florence Welch

31. “Love is horrible. I mean, when you’re in love, it’s like a sickness. Such madness.”

— Florence Welch

32. “I’ve got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me – it’s incredible.”

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

34. “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.”

— Florence Welch

35. “I like the idea of taking off like a bird.”

— Florence Welch

36. “There’s such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you’re both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.”

— Florence Welch

37. “I’m pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.”

— Florence Welch

38. “It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.”

— Florence Welch

39. “I feel things in quite an intense way. I’m not actually the most intense person.”

— Florence Welch

40. “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.”

— Florence Welch

41. “For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.”

— Florence Welch

42. “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. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don’t worry – I’m very capable of making myself discontented.”

— Florence Welch

43. “I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight – like sisters do.”

— Florence Welch

44. “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.”

— Florence Welch

45. “I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything – more emotion, more drama, more glitz.”

— Florence Welch

46. “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.”

— Florence Welch

47. “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.”

— Florence Welch

48. “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.”

— Florence Welch

49. “I woke up in bed with two teenage vampires. I don’t think they had even asked me in. I don’t know how I had ended up sleeping sweetly between them. Neil was banging on the door with some clothes for me. My dress had been shredded in the night. Not by the vampires though, there are other things that bite.”

— Florence Welch

50. “I’ve got quite a vivid imagination and I’m easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ghost – I think I’m probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.”

— Florence Welch