Video: Florence and The Machine Interview

In this recent interview with TV Guide, the Mercury-nominated British singer Florence Welch discusses how being afraid of the dark––really just a telling sign of an overactive imagination––fuels the creative process, and how fact melds with fantasy to write songs about experiences that have never happened. I've heard a lot of musicians talk about this lately: how a song could be told from the first-person perspective, but driven by a desire to role-play, either to understand someone else's perspective or to escape reality. Or as Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards delightfully puts it , to " access something [...]