Latest Matthew Healy Quotes from Interviews

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• We intentionally didn't want to release anything when we were very young, I suppose, because we had a lot of foresight. Stuff can come back to bite you in the ass. Know what I mean?

  Matthew Healy

  Mean, Ass, Foresight

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I suppose I view my behavior in such a unique way. I frame it as an artist and maybe kind of make excuses for it. I suppose I romanticize my own life when I write. I always try to think whether it actually is quite romantic.

  Matthew Healy

  Writing, Artist, Unique

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You feel like you want something, but you don't actually know what that is. I remember waking up the other night and really craving something, but not knowing what it is. That feeling has been prominent throughout my whole life. I think I try and fill that thing with lots of different things. I can't really stay still. I can't really not be stimulated. It's kind of a search of constant stimulation through other people, substances and stuff. I think that's what our lyrical content is about.

  Matthew Healy

  Night, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Matthew Healy

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

  Source: killingthecabinet.com

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

  Matthew Healy

  Done, Moments, Intricacy

  Source: killingthecabinet.com

• 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.

  Matthew Healy

  Want, Happened, Happens

  Source: killingthecabinet.com

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

  Matthew Healy

  Thinking, Evolution, Life Is

  Source: killingthecabinet.com

• We now live in a world where accessibility is paramount. So I think we just juxtapose that a little bit and maybe play the internet like a game because we don't like to be exposed as individuals, we like to be an entity.

  Matthew Healy

  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: killingthecabinet.com

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

  Matthew Healy

  Thinking, Individuality, Solidarity

  Source: killingthecabinet.com

• I think that the internet is a beast of burden.

  Matthew Healy

  Thinking, Internet, Beast

  Source: killingthecabinet.com

• 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.

  Matthew Healy

  Kids, Thinking, Soul

  Source: killingthecabinet.com

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

  Matthew Healy

  Emo, Thinking, Ambient Music

  Source: killingthecabinet.com

• I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.

  Matthew Healy

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

• I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.

  Matthew Healy

  Mean, Imagination, Story Writers

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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

  Matthew Healy

  Writing, Stories, Used

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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

  Matthew Healy

  Reading, Writing, Swimming

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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

  Matthew Healy

  Reading, Writing, Creative

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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

  Matthew Healy

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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

  Matthew Healy

  Character, Ideas, Shame

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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

  Matthew Healy

  Character, Opposites, Action

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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

  Matthew Healy

  Kids, Green, Concerts

  Source: www.scenewave.com

• A band that we supported called Blackfish in Manchester, played the most insane gig I've ever been to. Everything was set on fire, and then they came on and played one of the coolest gigs I've ever seen.

  Matthew Healy

  Fire, Insane, Band

  Source: www.scenewave.com

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

  Matthew Healy

  Advice, Genre

  Source: www.scenewave.com

• There's a point when you're dating someone where you become aware of all the things you kind of thought you couldn't depart from. You kind of build all of these nostalgias and sort of antiquated memories in your mind, and when you're at the point during the breakup, you realise, "you know what, it actually takes a bit more than all this bullshit".

  Matthew Healy

  Breakup, Memories, Dating Someone

  Source: www.scenewave.com

• 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.

  Matthew Healy

  Song, People, Care

  Source: www.scenewave.com