240 Quotes by Florence Welch

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.