Florence Welch Quotes

I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.

Show business got really tainted for me.

G-Dragon is a fancy person. People don't expect the upright image of G-Dragon. Kwon Ji Yong is an introvert and has lots of things going on in his head.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music.

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

When I first saw Drake, I thought I was never going to like him based on the person that I saw on T.V. He's just so full on, and he's got the ladies' man thing, which isn't necessarily something that would resonate with me.

I'm used to people talking about me.

Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.

Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.

This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.