I never thought of any of our songs as 'hits,' so to speak - we just wrote them for us. — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
I don't feel the need to be present in the culture unless I have a song out. — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
When we were a band in the mid-2000s, MySpace and PureVolume were really important to us. I remember Arctic Monkeys happening there. — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
The way that I write music is that I listen to a song I love and I copy it. And songs that… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
People often think I'm expressing my opinion on things with my lyrics, but I'm really just asking questions and pointing toward things. — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
My rules for a protest song are, if it's going to be hectoring or if it's going to be naive or ridiculously… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Making a record is like delineating a personality, and you can't do that without it being incredibly dynamic. Because that's what a… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
People ask about why there's so much harmony in the band... it's because we've all grown together. We know everything about each… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
The days of the NME being like, 'This is your new favorite band, and here's one song' - that's over. — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
As long as songs are about something, it doesn't matter. When songs are just rhymes, and they don't mean anything, I'm not… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
I'd love to talk to myself at 40 and see what I've achieved and what I feel... but I will just be the same… — Matty Healy Copy Share
I don't feel the need to be present in the culture unless I have a song out. — Matty Healy Copy Share
Songs like 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons, it might as well be called 'Pikachu Banana.' It's nothingness. — Matty Healy Copy Share
People who overshare because they think it's endearing can be quite exhausting. Self-deprecation is fine if it's real but anything performative is annoying. — Matty Healy Copy Share
When we make a record, we live together and we wake up every day and we make music. — Matty Healy Copy Share
In a world where people want answers immediately, I'm behaving a lot of the time in ways that contradict certain people's beliefs, or normally… — Matty Healy Copy Share
I've been writing about my life and my ideas since before I was even an adult! So you know, if you ask a gymnast… — Matty Healy Copy Share
All of my flaws and all the things that make me up are part of who I am. It's about honesty and everything that… — Matty Healy Copy Share
I didn't feel particularly cool when I was 16 or 17 but I felt accepted in a community of alternative music and the gig scene. — Matty Healy Copy Share
If fidelity really mattered, 'Loveless' wouldn't be one of the best records of all time. — Matty Healy Copy Share
Some days I'm cool with getting canceled every week. Some days I'm not cool with it. — Matty Healy Copy Share
I'll die on the hill of my records, but I won't die on the hill of my tweets. — Matty Healy Copy Share
