Quotes By Matty Healy

I suppose I'm a traditional progressive who is suspicious of woke-ism as a viable worldview or device to make things better. But I don't want to be associated with any side because then I can't make jokes about them. I just wanna make jokes.

Love is the narrative and the intention and the obstacle.

I'm conditioned to know that I'm gonna fuck something up, so I go into anything that makes me feel truly vulnerable with an acknowledgment that it may be temporary, or I may be limited in my ability to fulfill this really big thing that doesn't require me to be sharp or witty or dexterous. It requires me to be fucking naive and simple and nice and reliable. I worry about it, because I'm better at: make a joke and leave.

There's lots of neologisms that I don't think are needed, but once somebody explained gaslighting, I realized that I'd done that in my relationships and thought, Fuck.

She wasn't a big impact on my life. It's just interesting to me how interested the world is about Taylor Swift. The reason I mention that is because if I had [properly] gone out with Taylor Swift, I would've been, 'F-king hell, I am not being Taylor Swift's boyfriend.' You know, 'F-k. That.' That's also a man thing, a demasculinating [sic], emasculating thing.

I have said on countless occasions that I found her to be one of the most gracious, hard working, creatively gifted, and beautiful women that I have had the pleasure to meet [sic]," he tweeted at the time, according to Elle. "I personally have a lot of respect and admiration for her. Why would I not?

Thank you, Dubai, you were so amazing. I don't think we'll be allowed back due to my 'behaviour', but know that I love you and I wouldn't have done anything differently given the chance again.

The erosion of funding for seed and grassroots spaces is part of a wider liberal tendency to strip away the socially democratic infrastructure that actually makes art possible.

What's left is a cultural economy where only the privileged can afford to create, and where only immediately profitable art survives.

The Seed Sounds Weekender is a vital reminder that music doesn't start in boardrooms or big arenas; it starts in back rooms, pubs, basements, and independent spaces run on love, grit, and belief in something bigger.

Tries to think that I'm just doing my own thing, but every time I look back it always really makes sense in that time.

I'm constantly looking for things to reaffirm what's going on and give me some confidence, because I don't know what I'm doing.

There are so many self-references - it's always me in the songs talking about being in the song, like a character in a film that knows he's a character in a film.

What people really want is remarkable stuff that doesn't require a lot of technology.

The synthesis of art and technology has now been going on for so long. You can watch a film with incredible CGI where King Kong kills a thing and it doesn't even move you because you take everything for granted.

I like my men like I like my coffee - full of soy milk and so sweet they won't offend anybody.

I've been clean for ages, I'm at the gym all the time, everyone feels good.

I've spent a lot of time in the hotel room, I've been thinking a bit too much, I just need to loosen up.

I've got a tiny little bit, which I got after about six months of I've got a tiny little bit, which I got after about six months of negotiation..

When I went to rehab, somebody said to me: 'You're so lucky - normally most people that come here have lost everything and they have to rebuild.' I hadn't really lost anything. I just lost a little bit of respect from my mates.