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Florence Welch
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: August 28
Composer
Drummer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
London
England
Florence Leontine Mary Welch
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.
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It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he would direct the video for 'Spectrum' from the moment the song was written. I still can't believe it actually happened, and I'm completely overjoyed that he felt such a connection with the song.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.
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Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.
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Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.
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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.
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I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
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The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea
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I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's still got bloodlust.
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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.
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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.
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For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.
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