Song Quotes by Matty Healy

I'm always just listening to old emo, really, let's be honest.

— Matty Healy

We're the Tumblr band, really, in every sense.

— Matty Healy

I don't feel the need to be present in the culture unless I have a song out.

— Matty Healy

I never thought of any of our songs as 'hits,' so to speak - we just wrote them for us.

— Matty Healy

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

The way that I write music is that I listen to a song I love and I copy it. And songs that…

— Matty Healy

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

The days of the NME being like, 'This is your new favorite band, and here's one song' - that's over.

— Matty Healy

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

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

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

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