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
call conversation fit name particles scientists smallest song split word wrote
I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?
amazing boys drifted grew house life missed moved people siblings special
My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
gaga love music perry pop rap
I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
healthy trying daydreaming
I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.
kind sometimes attractive
Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.
mistake heart ifs
If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.
ocean tree want
I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe… It’s something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you’re either going to explode with it, or you’re just going to disappear.
creativity expression ideas
I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.
should-have expectations expectations-of-yourself
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
running creating personality
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.
running dog eye
For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed
feelings tools use
I tend to lose myself in the moment. I’m not very good at holding back. I don’t know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.
darkness dawn darkness-before-the-dawn
It's always darkness before the dawn.
love sex writing
I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.