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" Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me. "

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" 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

Ancient

I Am

London

" 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. "

" I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits. "

" I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes. "

" I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer. "

" It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style. "

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

" When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect. "

" I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right. "

" I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time. "

" 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. "

" I like the idea of taking off like a bird. "

" It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But 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. "

" I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be. "

" 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

Down

" 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. "

" I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous. "

Florence Welch

Dangerous

Black

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

" Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism. "

Florence Welch

Music

Emotional

" I definitely have a real self-destructive streak. "

" On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose. "

" I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right. "

" I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music. "

" When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15. "

" The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up. "

" 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. "

" Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people. "

Florence Welch

Fear

Feel

" I've built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I'm happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I've already been blue, green, black, and blonde. "

" I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person. "

" During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression. "