Top 120 Florence Welch Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Florence Welch

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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.”

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

57. “I’ve learned not to hide behind a veil of irony – to talk about my work in a more honest way.”

— Florence Welch

58. “In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don’t know what to say, I get very anxious.”

— Florence Welch

59. “Well, I’m completely normal and mellow.”

— Florence Welch

60. “But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.”

— Florence Welch

61. “I’ve built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I’m happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I’ve already been blue, green, black, and blonde.”

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

63. “I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 – in my goth period – I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don’t think he did.”

— Florence Welch

64. “Maybe in music you’re making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.”

— Florence Welch

65. “Music to me is so internal. It’s physical and it’s emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it’s almost like a break. It’s not inner turmoil. It’s total escapism.”

— Florence Welch

66. “It’s very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.”

— Florence Welch

67. “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.”

— Florence Welch

68. “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.”

— Florence Welch

69. “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.”

— Florence Welch

70. “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.”

— Florence Welch

71. “If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn’t – it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.”

— Florence Welch

72. “Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don’t know what I’m trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn’t do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.”

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

74. “I didn’t want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn’t have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I’m happy with things.”

— Florence Welch

75. “I’d experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I’d written and recorded, but something wasn’t quite right.”

— Florence Welch

76. “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

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

— Florence Welch

78. “I’ve just never been a tracksuit-wearer.”

— Florence Welch

79. “I want people to get hit and caught by my music.”

— Florence Welch

80. “Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I’m really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It’s always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.”

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

82. “I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You’re using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.”

— Florence Welch

83. “I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.”

— Florence Welch

84. “Rotting like a wreck on the ocean floor. Sinking like a siren that can’t swim anymore.”

— Florence Welch

85. “The release of ‘Lungs’ was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.”

— Florence Welch

86. “I like to think at least things can’t get any worse.”

— Florence Welch

87. “I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie – it doesn’t feel or seem right.”

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

89. “I’ve always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.”

— Florence Welch

90. “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.”

— Florence Welch

91. “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.”

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

93. “The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue – it kind of was all over the place.”

— Florence Welch

94. “I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I’m not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that’s saying hello to people and falling over.”

— Florence Welch

95. “When I’m singing I’m always trying to get to the highest point possible. I’d fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.”

— Florence Welch

96. “I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it’s an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.”

— Florence Welch

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

— Florence Welch

98. “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.”

— Florence Welch

99. “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.”

— Florence Welch

100. “I love performing outside because it’s as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well – you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It’s almost as if there’s a sense of invocation in performance.”

— Florence Welch