Matty Healy

I don't listen to rock bands.

— Matty Healy

“Does babygirl mean camp?”

— Matty Healy

It's exhausting to be me.

— Matty Healy

Nostalgia is beautiful.

— Matty Healy

I love touring.

— Matty Healy

I just have a lot of ideas and very little attention span.

— Matty Healy

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

— Matty Healy

I know that I'm not as smart as I think I am.

— Matty Healy

I've never done anything for clout in my life.

— Matty Healy

I describe my band as a punk band.

— Matty Healy

Our pre-show ritual is to not have any pre-show rituals.

— Matty Healy

I don't know what it's like to be oppressed.

— Matty Healy

That's my duty. Just make powerful art.

— Matty Healy

There's a real earnestness to country music that I appreciate.

— Matty Healy

I have to listen to people, and I always try to meet people with understanding.

— Matty Healy

It was easier to contact the dead than it was to contact the 17-year-old me.

— Matty Healy

There's some things that are so transcendent that it doesn't feel like, you know, a bloke can own it.

— Matty Healy

“After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write”

— Matty Healy

When we make a record, we live together and we wake up every day and we make music.

— Matty Healy

I wear a lot of Saint Laurent because it's so classic rock star.

— Matty Healy

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

— Matty Healy

People want a real-time relationship now. When I saw Cardi B communicating with her audience on Instagram with zero mediation, I knew…

— Matty Healy

A lot of my therapy is with horses. I did a lot equine therapy, which at first - an Englishman trying to…

— Matty Healy

I'm never not going to have my work, because I am my work. I don't have any removal from The 1975 and…

— 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

I'd love to talk to myself at 40 and see what I've achieved and what I feel... but I will just be…

— Matty Healy

I don't like time-stamping my work too much. If you're putting it too much in the zeitgeist, then you can't get away…

— Matty Healy

I've always got an excuse to be inspired by somewhere, so I always spend a lot of time wandering around new places,…

— Matty Healy

If you dethrone sincerity or earnestness with irony, eventually you get, like, an equal tyrant, do you know what I mean?

— Matty Healy

I've been writing about my life and my ideas since before I was even an adult! So you know, if you ask…

— Matty Healy

If you truly believe that artists have a responsibility to uphold their liberal virtues by using their massive platforms, then those artists…

— Matty Healy

You look at like the '70s, the messianic presence of the artist - it was very much about an audience gathering to…

— Matty Healy

“...the hopelessly romantic notion that two people can meet and instantly fall in love, an escape story where love is the highest…

— Matty Healy

I'm an exhausting person to be around.

— Matty Healy

I don't love the running machine. I'm not a gym dude.

— Matty Healy

I just wanted to be in Dashboard for a minute.

— Matty Healy

I'm scared of the world. I'm not scared of myself any more.

— Matty Healy

You know, everyone's so flawed.

— Matty Healy

Counter-culture will always exist.

— Matty Healy

“Who's to say tomorrow won't be the best day of your life?”

— Matty Healy