Matty Healy

I'm not scared of anything. And I'm not hiding anything.

— Matty Healy

Artists have taught me way more than anyone else really.

— Matty Healy

The tragedy in somebody trying to be funny is so brilliant.

— Matty Healy

The Malaysian authorities... briefly imprisoned us.

— Matty Healy

I'll never compromise my values.

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I'm super into technology. That's my bag. I love it. I read a lot about it.

— Matty Healy

My dad's mates were all in bands, and I just wanted to be like my Dad's mates.

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My favorite art, or whatever you want to call it, is art that makes you feel personally addressed.

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Well, I don't really listen to The 1975 when I'm chilling at home.

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I don't like Jeremy Corbyn, I don't like Boris Johnson, I didn't trust either of them.

— Matty Healy

The only thing I have the ability to do is make positive things. That's what I'm trying to put my energy into.

— Matty Healy

I wouldn't go to America if I thought Americans were representative of their government.

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Of course, masculinity's changed, but maybe I'm fortunate or privileged to have not been that interested in it.

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If loads of teenagers see grown-ups screaming into the Internet then they're probably going to go, 'I'm not going to do that,…

— Matty Healy

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

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In a world where people want answers immediately, I'm behaving a lot of the time in ways that contradict certain people's beliefs,…

— Matty Healy

There is not one person going to a High Flying Birds gig or a Liam Gallagher gig that would not rather be…

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It feels like 90 percent of the time, cancel culture itself is far worse than the moral indiscretions of those that have…

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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

I'm very much in my own world with The 1975, so when I do an interview I have to treat it like…

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I see comedy and music as the two most similar artforms. They both take something big and true and convey it simply…

— Matty Healy

If you're bred through the Internet, you're bred with zero tribalism.

— Matty Healy

If fidelity really mattered, 'Loveless' wouldn't be one of the best records of all time.

— Matty Healy

Songs like 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons, it might as well be called 'Pikachu Banana.' It's nothingness.

— Matty Healy

I love Vetements, but I tend not to wear on stage 'cause the sleeves are too long and I can't play the…

— Matty Healy

I'll die on the hill of my records, but I won't die on the hill of my tweets.

— Matty Healy

I started my band when I was 13 years old. We were a real band.

— 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

Some days I'm cool with getting canceled every week. Some days I'm not cool with it.

— Matty Healy

A lot of women I know have found that their ideas may not be taken as seriously as men's.

— 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

To try to understand things by slapping an ideology on it is an old-fashioned method.

— Matty Healy

When I was growing up, the rich melodic music was Brandy, Whitney, SWV, TLC.

— Matty Healy

To be a type of band that plays a type of music - I just see it as cosplay.

— Matty Healy

OK Computer,' 'Sign o' the Times,' all my favourite records are about life.

— Matty Healy

Comedy just reveals the truth in a way where you can't help but laugh; someone says the wrong thing, and you laugh…

— Matty Healy

For me, my relationship with social media was very politicised and it was very much something that I would use daily to…

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Shawn Mendes, Harry Styles, whatever. They're great pop stars, but they - on purpose - don't say anything. They purposefully don't stand…

— Matty Healy

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…

— Matty Healy