“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.” ThinkingFeelsHeartI CanSometimesHandsSidesMy HeartMouthsNervousChestsStomachGet Real Author:Florence Welch
“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.” ThinkingKindBitsMiddleStrangeMetsSingingBallsRebelEyebrowsDressed UpBowie Author:Florence Welch
“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.” ThinkingI CanRememberMotherBrainWasteWorn Author:Florence Welch
“I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.” ThinkingFavorsGoing To Work Author:Florence Welch
“I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.” ThinkingProblemEmotionDramaWanting MoreGlitz Author:Florence Welch
“I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.” ThinkingSoundTermBandSongwriting Author:Florence Welch
“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.” ThinkingEnergyCreativityWorryCreativeCapableContentmentKillersHeartbroken Author:Florence Welch
“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.” ThinkingRealBeautifulImaginationMy OwnScaryGhostSensationsOverwhelmedVividReal OnesVivid Imagination 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
“I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.” PeopleThinkingTwoThreeAcceptableEncores Author:Florence Welch
“I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.” ThinkingFeelsMeanI CanFeelingsSeemsHealthyCalmShakesDoom 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 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.” ThinkingFeelsSeemsTurnsMusic IsProtectionSensesDeclineCavesOutletsEuphoric Author:Florence Welch
“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.” ThinkingArtistDramaDramaticGesturesEncores Author:Florence Welch
“I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.” ThinkingWayWritingPlayBigsSongMy OwnGuitarGladTypicalCrescendo 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
“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.” ThinkingKindFeelingsEmotionExtremesDestructiveImageryLove Each Other Author:Florence Welch
“I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.” ThinkingIssuesDawn Author:Florence Welch
“I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.” ThinkingShouldMusic IsScaryExorcism Author:Florence Welch
“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.” ThinkingMadeFallNextBlackClassBoysHairPeriodsTenRedFalling In LoveCastsSpellsCandleBedroomWitchcraftShrinesGoth 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
“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.” ThinkingKindHelpingBodySongSingingExcitedYour BodyReleaseMusclesAdrenalineEndorphinsPhysical Things Author:Florence Welch
