“I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'”

English singer and songwriter

Florence Welch is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the indie rock band Florence and the Machine. She became widely known through the band’s chart success in the UK. Their debut album, Lungs, was released in 2009, reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and won the Brit Award for Best British Album. The band’s next five albums also performed well on the charts. In 2018, Welch published Useless Magic, a book of her lyrics and poems with illustrations.