Well, I'm completely normal and mellow. Florence Welch More Quotes by Florence Welch More Quotes From Florence Welch I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right. Florence Welch jeans odd looks I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it. Florence Welch eyebrows guy girl I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer. Florence Welch I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did. Florence Welch falling-in-love boys thinking But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes. Florence Welch teenager fashion dream I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance. Florence Welch rain wind heaven The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music. Florence Welch soul age listening Everything has such order and everyone is so focused on doing what they're doing that no one ever pays attention to you spinning and dancing around supermarkets. It's something you find in places like supermarkets and airports, where everything is really ordered. There's something about those places that makes you feel really anonymous. Florence Welch airports dancing order I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong. Florence Welch choir girl gone I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three. Florence Welch two people thinking I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental. Florence Welch eight boys years Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold. Florence Welch touring band stuff 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. Florence Welch cutting couple bird 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. Florence Welch boys years thinking Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving. Florence Welch high-heels moving thinking '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. Florence Welch wall dog play 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. Florence Welch growing-up dream people I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody. Florence Welch eras london feelings I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you. Florence Welch release crowds arms I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music. Florence Welch pops rap bigs
