A biography for Matty Healyhasn’t been written yet.
“We're the Tumblr band, really, in every sense.”
“The idea of calling out a performer for being performative is mind-numbingly redundant as an exercise. Performing is a performer's job.”
“If you're not as emotionally invested in your music as I believe true artists are, then I don't have to say you have any artistic credibility.”
“I've never done anything for clout in my life.”
“To be a type of band that plays a type of music - I just see it as cosplay.”
“You know, everyone's so flawed.”
“If you're bred through the Internet, you're bred with zero tribalism.”
“I'm at my best when I'm at my funniest and most observational comedy is topical. But anything forced, it stings or reads as insincere.”
“Some days I'm cool with getting canceled every week. Some days I'm not cool with it.”
“Nostalgia is beautiful.”
“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 annoying.”
“The way that I write music is that I listen to a song I love and I copy it. And songs that I love are not songs by rock bands, unless they're old classics.”
“When I was growing up, the rich melodic music was Brandy, Whitney, SWV, TLC.”
“I'm not interested in reactive statements. I'm interested in living in an environment and then reflecting what that's like.”
“A lot of women I know have found that their ideas may not be taken as seriously as men's.”
“I'd much rather be called a champagne socialist than be an artist that isn't talking about the most pressing issue on the planet.”
“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, because that's for grown-ups.' That's kind of how cultural movements work.”
“It feels like 90 percent of the time, cancel culture itself is far worse than the moral indiscretions of those that have been accused of something.”
“My favorite art, or whatever you want to call it, is art that makes you feel personally addressed.”
“It costs a lot of money to be the 1975 and not take all of the offers that we've had. We're not interested in that, we're just interested in doing what's best for us.”