Florence Welch admits gigging across the world has taken its toll.
She explained: “I’ve been doing it for 10 years, and I’d quite like to experience a different way of life.
“My whole adult life has been making an album, then going on a tour, in a cycle, and it’s been very punishing for me, mentally and physically. It’s draining. I’m drained.”
She’s been open about her anxiety issues over the years but things haven’t got better.
The Dog Days Are Over hitmaker went on: “Even in the midst of a full-blown anxiety attack, I can do the show. But my mental health has taken a battering.
“It used to be that that was a price I was willing to pay. I don’t think I am now. I have to really unravel the anxiety. I can’t stop crying.
“I can’t dress. I get cyclical negative thinking that gets really dark that says I shouldn’t exist. I go down a hole quite fast.”
The band headline a British Summer Time gig in London’s Hyde Park on July 13.
But it’s not the end – she also told Q Magazine: “I’mnot retiring.
“I just need to not tour for a good bit. I’ll be back.”
