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Florence Welch Biography

Florence Leontine Mary Welch (born 28 August 1986) is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the vocalist and songwriter of the indie rock band Florence and the Machine.

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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.

Cave, Caves, Outlet, Protection, Thinking

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.

Bloodlust, Mean, River, Rivers, Running

I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?

Albums, Fit, Might, Sales, Stuff

I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing.

Dancing, Favorite, Girl, Growing Up, Inhibited

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.

Brain, Like, Mother, Occasionally, Thinking, Usually

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

Definitely, Real, Self, Streak, Streaks

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

Fans, Give, Giving, Paid, Responsibility

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?

Charm, Conversation, Father, Nice, Song, Though

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.

Beautiful, Like, Sadness, Soul, Turning

I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

Clothes, Lady, Like, Old, Old Lady

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me card »">birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

Birthday, Competition, Set, Song, Stuff, Thing

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.

Age, Ages, Album, Couple, Swimming

I saw 'The Artist. ' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

Artist, Beautiful, Dog, Letter, Saw

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

Band, Like, Stuff, Touring

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

Boy, Boys, Eight, Traveling, Used, Years

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.

Big, Bird, Collecting, Couple, Cutting

I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.

Names, Online, Performing, Song, Spent, Way

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

Darkest, Dawn, Drawn, Issues, Like, Thinking

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

Able, Channel, Instinct, Kind, Quite, Subconscious

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.

Auntie, Fall, Falling, Saying, Song, Thinking

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