Matthew Healy Quotes

One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

Never take a person away from the music they love.

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that's not true - it's that we have nothing to die for.

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.

Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.

The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

I think I couldn't give myself any advice apart from just do exactly what I want.

I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.

I think everything in life is an evolution, isn't it?

Along with John Hughes, he's probably the biggest influence. Would be awesome not only to meet him; he's one person I'd also definitely like to work with.

I think early on I was really into ambient music and like American original Emo.

Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible.

As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.

There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide.

I don't believe in anything blindly supernatural.

I think the less individuality you portray... not individuality but like the more solidarity you have the better.

I need to keep my dancing on the right side of weird, otherwise it might get a bit like "American Idol."

I think that the internet is a beast of burden.

We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and interpret it in a different way.

What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.

So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite.

I like the idea of characters without shame, who hold nothing back.

We've finished our debut album which has 14 tracks. We're very proud of the release and can't wait for people to hear it.

Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me.

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul. I love soul music.

The main reason we understand what we're doing is because we're the individuals doing it. One of the things that surprises me is that all the songs are about me, and it's cool that people care.

When I was young I was one of those kids that got pulled onstage at a Green Day concert. That was pretty awesome.

At the moment we're playing more stuff from our upcoming album which is really a departure from any record we've done.

Its quite there sonically; a strong representation of what the songs on our records are like. It's very loud and our set is based around containing as much energy and dynamics as possible.