Top 120 Florence Welch Quotes (2025 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. “You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.”

— Florence Welch

5. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— Florence Welch

12. “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

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

— Florence Welch

14. “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

15. “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

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

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

18. “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

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

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

21. “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

22. “Female rage is one of the scariest things you could possibly imagine.”

— Florence Welch

23. “I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.”

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

25. “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

26. “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

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

— Florence Welch

28. “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

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

— Florence Welch

30. “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

31. “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

32. “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

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

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

36. “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

37. “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

38. “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

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

— Florence Welch

40. “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

41. “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

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

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

44. “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

45. “The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you’re in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.”

— Florence Welch

46. “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

47. “But you have to satisfy the monster. The monster has loved you for longer than anyone else.”

— Florence Welch

48. “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

49. “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

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

— Florence Welch