Matty Healy Quotes

Matty Healy

Profession : Singer

Birth : April 8, 1989

If you're bred through the Internet, you're bred with zero tribalism.

Matty Healy

When we were a band in the mid-2000s, MySpace and PureVolume were really important to us. I remember Arctic Monkeys happening there.

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I never thought of any of our songs as 'hits,' so to speak - we just wrote them for us.

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Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You' is very special to me, but I think that's because it's about me leaving my little brother.

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My dad's mates were all in bands, and I just wanted to be like my Dad's mates.

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A lot of women I know have found that their ideas may not be taken as seriously as men's.

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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.

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I've never done anything for clout in my life.

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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.

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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.

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One could criticize me for loads of things, but you can't criticize me for being insincere. Annoying, whatever. But I'm not insincere.

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The tragedy in somebody trying to be funny is so brilliant.

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People often think I'm expressing my opinion on things with my lyrics, but I'm really just asking questions and pointing toward things.

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I see comedy and music as the two most similar artforms. They both take something big and true and convey it simply and effectively.

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Comedy just reveals the truth in a way where you can't help but laugh; someone says the wrong thing, and you laugh at it because you know what the right thing is.

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I just wanted to be in Dashboard for a minute.

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If you look back in the past and you go, 'oh that was cool and people really liked it; let's dress and sound like that,' that's cosplay.

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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.

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When we make a record, we live together and we wake up every day and we make music.

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I describe my band as a punk band.

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