A biography for Matty Healyhasn’t been written yet.
“You look at like the '70s, the messianic presence of the artist - it was very much about an audience gathering to watch this person happen on stage. Whereas after dance music, there's kind of been this equilibrium that's come between artist and audience.”
“For me, my relationship with social media was very politicised and it was very much something that I would use daily to reaffirm who I was to myself and to the world, as an artist and as a person.”
“I'm not an elitist, but the idea that we have this society where everybody's opinion is equal on certain things, that's not true.”
“People ask about why there's so much harmony in the band... it's because we've all grown together. We know everything about each other.”
“I'm scared of the world. I'm not scared of myself any more.”
“Shawn Mendes, Harry Styles, whatever. They're great pop stars, but they - on purpose - don't say anything. They purposefully don't stand for things apart from you know, 'Oh, masculinity: no.' Or 'racism: no' - d'you know what I mean?”
“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 have to listen to people, and I always try to meet people with understanding.”
“Of course, masculinity's changed, but maybe I'm fortunate or privileged to have not been that interested in it.”
“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.”
“As long as songs are about something, it doesn't matter. When songs are just rhymes, and they don't mean anything, I'm not into that. But songs can be about frivolity itself - if it's a good song about frivolity.”
“Even here in America, there's loads of states which uphold illiberal laws that restrict people's bodily autonomy and gender expression.”
“I don't listen to rock bands.”
“If you dethrone sincerity or earnestness with irony, eventually you get, like, an equal tyrant, do you know what I mean?”
“After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write”
“When we make a record, we live together and we wake up every day and we make music.”
“My rules for a protest song are, if it's going to be hectoring or if it's going to be naive or ridiculously idealistic, just don't do it.”
“There's this amazing dialogue between me and my fans. There's an interest in the sharing of intellectual ideas based around art.”
“Songs like 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons, it might as well be called 'Pikachu Banana.' It's nothingness.”
“I don't love the running machine. I'm not a gym dude.”