Florence Welch
Florence Welch
Florence Leontine Mary Welch is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the indie rock band Florence + the Machine...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth28 August 1986
CityCamberwell, England
falling-in-love book school
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.
heartbroken selfish creativity
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.
stones pockets sound
Lay me down Let the only sound Be the overflow Pockets full of stones
couple order healthy
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.
jeans looks odd
I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.
boys years eight
I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
sleep dark light
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
band stuff touring
Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
couple cutting bird
My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
boys thinking years
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.
dog wall play
'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
ideas bird
I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
clothes old-lady
I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
rap bigs pops
I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.