Quotes By Matty Healy

If you truly believe that artists have a responsibility to uphold their liberal virtues by using their massive platforms, then those artists should be judged by the danger and inconvenience that they face for doing so, not by the rewards they receive for parroting consensus.

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

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 encompasses: fragility, neuroses, getting it wrong. I stand for being an ambassador of that kind of honesty.

The idea of calling out a performer for being performative is mind-numbingly redundant as an exercise. Performing is a performer's job.

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

When we were a band in the mid-2000s, MySpace and PureVolume were really important to us. I remember Arctic Monkeys happening there.

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

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

It's a tough pill to swallow, but if I was going to stand for something as an artist, and every time that had consequences I decided not to do it, that'd be pointless. I have to listen to people, and I always try to meet people with understanding.

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

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

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

If you're still making art in your 30s you're either wadded or good - and I'm both.

I thought we were fighting, but it seems I was 'gaslighting' you. I didn't know that it had its own word.

I'm better at writing' was just a way to get you biting. Oh the truth is that our egos are absurd.

People may think that it's 'uncool' to work with the biggest producer in the world-I don't give a fuck.

We used to want our artists to be cigarette-smoking bohemian outsiders who were gonna take risks that the rest of us wouldn't.

I fucking hate Metallica. My worst band of all time.