“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.” IfsFeelsRealLife IsStageConversationComfortableReal LifeNervousNerves Author:Florence Welch
“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.” PeopleThinkingShouldSongFallStageBiggerMadWanderHelloPersonaWandering AroundSaying HelloAuntie Author:Florence Welch
“On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.” UsePurposeEmotionStage Author:Florence Welch
“At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.” ThinkingYearsWholeBoysCareersStageStyleClothesRoundsShirtsPhasesDressingsT ShirtShortsReally WeirdApparelWhole YearBrogues Author:Florence Welch
“Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.” ThinkingWayMovingGoneStagePerformancesIncludingPerformingHeelsNew WaysRippedHigh HeelsTrousersGlastonbury Author:Florence Welch
“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.” I CanLife IsWaitingWorryStageMarriedBoundariesInsaneTypical Author:Florence Welch
“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.” YearsFirstsWholeGirlNamesFantasyHeardStageGoes OnGreenAlbumsCovered Author:Florence Welch
“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.” RunningBitsLosesStagePersonalityCreatingOrdinaryFlightSensationsWrapsSanctuaryOrdinary LifeLosing Yourself Author:Florence Welch
“The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.” IfsThinkingWayTryingPlayHomeFoundFunStuffStageGrewDressesCharityHaving FunShopsAesthetic Author:Florence Welch
“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.” IfsKnowsWellsShowsHeavenStageWindElementsRainPerformancesPerformingThunderInvocation Author:Florence Welch
“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.” PeopleI CanStageFrontsJudgementJudged Author:Florence Welch
“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.” IfsThinkingI CanBitsInterestingCareersStageDesignSingingSingersStuckSettingSettingsDesignerFrustratedInteriorsGreedyClutterInterior DesignDecoratorsInterior DesignerSinging Career Author:Florence Welch
“What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.” PeopleMomentsSeeingStagePerformances Author:Florence Welch
