A biography for Matty Healyhasn’t been written yet.
“I'll die on the hill of my records, but I won't die on the hill of my tweets.”
“I think, for me, not to get too dark, my self-worth is very much wrapped up in my ability to be a good artist. And I think I'm constantly up against myself more than I'm up against anybody else. I think that keeps me quite driven.”
“OK Computer,' 'Sign o' the Times,' all my favourite records are about life.”
“I love touring.”
“To try to understand things by slapping an ideology on it is an old-fashioned method.”
“It was easier to contact the dead than it was to contact the 17-year-old me.”
“Ambient music is my favorite art form because there's no interface. It just commands you how to feel. There's no suggestion of lyrics or visuals, it just tells you, in its own abstract way. You feel it, and it moves you.”
“I just wanted to be in Dashboard for a minute.”
“There is not one person going to a High Flying Birds gig or a Liam Gallagher gig that would not rather be at an Oasis gig.”
“In a world where people want answers immediately, I'm behaving a lot of the time in ways that contradict certain people's beliefs, or normally conservative beliefs.”
“Making a record is like delineating a personality, and you can't do that without it being incredibly dynamic. Because that's what a personality is - loads of things.”
“People want a real-time relationship now. When I saw Cardi B communicating with her audience on Instagram with zero mediation, I knew everything had changed.”
“I see comedy and music as the two most similar artforms. They both take something big and true and convey it simply and effectively.”
“You can probably tell by my records that I don't have much of a filter or a qualification process for what, stylistically, my records can sound like.”
“The Malaysian authorities... briefly imprisoned us.”
“I don't like time-stamping my work too much. If you're putting it too much in the zeitgeist, then you can't get away from it.”
“I've always got an excuse to be inspired by somewhere, so I always spend a lot of time wandering around new places, in my own world. I just like people watching.”
“I'd love to talk to myself at 40 and see what I've achieved and what I feel... but I will just be the same neurotic person who's striving to be a grown-up.”
“When we were a band in the mid-2000s, MySpace and PureVolume were really important to us. I remember Arctic Monkeys happening there.”
“Artists have taught me way more than anyone else really.”