You look at like the '70s, the messianic presence of the artist - it was very much about an audience gathering to watch this person happen on stage. Whereas after dance music, there's kind of been this equilibrium that's come… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
If you look back in the past and you go, 'oh that was cool and people really liked it; let's dress and sound like that,' that's cosplay. — 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 Image
I don't feel the need to be present in the culture unless I have a song out. — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Songs like 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons, it might as well be called 'Pikachu Banana.' It's nothingness. — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
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 Image
When we make a record, we live together and we wake up every day and we make music. — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
