Quotes By Matty Healy

I often think about how outspoken he's been about various political issues in this way that I feel like we should expect from punk and hardcore frontmen who are very quiet about those things.

If you truly believe that 'ALL LIVES MATTER' you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones.

Selling melanin and then suffocate the Black men. Start with misdemeanors, and we'll make a business out of them.

Sorry I did not link my song in that tweet to make it about me it's just that the song is literally about this disgusting situation and speaks more eloquently than I can on Twitter.

I was just like, 'You know what? If I want to write about the culture war, I don't wanna be a pawn in it anymore.

So many cringes in the heroin binges, I was coming off the hinges, living on the fringes of my imagination.

He toes that line so well, where he's able to make something compelling and profound and smart that's also so on the verge of making people hate him.

I've thought about every single word on this album for two years; I'd think about a tweet for 20 seconds. My album's gonna go out to, what, 10 million people, but a tweet could go out to a billion. The maths doesn't work out. I'll die on the hill of my records, but I won't die on the hill of my tweets. It's better to say good things less than to say average things more.

Kind of easy for me, because it's so scary, gross, dirty, and no one fucks with it-you don't go for a pizza and someone puts heroin in front of you.

Everyone smokes weed, it's fine. But I'm an addict, so it's not fine. I don't wanna be addicted to anything anymore.

The last person I got weed off in Japan was Dave Mustaine from Megadeth, and I don't think he's gonna be there.

My plug in Japan died during COVID. Rest in peace to, um, he was just in my phone as 'Fat Japan Dealer,' but he was a good guy.

Every record I've made, I convinced myself that I had so much to prove, so it had to be about everything that ever happened, everything that's happening now, and everything that could ever happen.

But on this record, I said, 'Instead of a magnum opus, what about more like a polaroid?

Anyone can make something with technology, but we've been a band for 20 years-it isn't algorithmic.

George is one of the best drummers in the world, play the fucking drums! Hann fucking rips on the guitar, so rip on the guitar!

I want my records to represent who I am, and I'm so fucking many things. And I also never wanna do anything that feels humble, because that would be performative.

I didn't know that was me until we fucking cut the record! I just thought it was a guy who's got a weird English accent.

The goal is something that sounds like a cover.

But what about-brace yourself-earnest. If you dethrone sincerity with irony, you get an equal tyrant by the end of the day, and I'm kind of tired of it. Because what makes me feel uncomfortable is saying, like, 'Do you mind telling me that I'm good, or that you love me, just so I can feel OK?' That's the shit I'm scared of, being seen as some fucking lame dude. It's way harder to be a bit naive and soppy without going not, or lol, or I jack off all the time.