Welch: "Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way."

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

Welch: "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."

Welch: "Love is horrible... When you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness."

Welch: "I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free."

Welch: "I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you."

Welch: "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."

Welch: "The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement."

Welch: "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."

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

Welch: "What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own."

Welch: "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."

Welch: "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."

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

Welch: "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."

Welch: "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."