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.
From Florence Welch
I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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.
Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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.
When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
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.
There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.
My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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