Matthew Healy Quotes & Sayings

When you start becoming a pop star, you think, Hold on a second, maybe my life is different now - maybe all these people that I thought of as celebrities are going to be normal, and when I walk into a room I'm going to be really cool and so is everyone else. But that's not what happens at all - I was awkward, and then I just retreated from any social engagement for about a year. — Matthew Healy

I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about people who aren't into it because that's the beauty of music. It's subjective. If every single person in the world loved our music, then that'd be weird. — Matthew Healy

There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to be an ambassador for the concept of modernity. I can be creative and useful. And I don't have to grow up. — Matthew Healy

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' — Matthew Healy

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

I don't believe in anything blindly supernatural. — Matthew Healy

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. — Matthew Healy

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

I've always tried to find God in lots of different things, whether that's been drugs, women, etc, etc ... But all those things are tangible and they exist and you can see them and you can feel them. Music doesn't exist, physically. Yet is commands ever facet of my personality and it has the power to command people how to feel on a physical level, uncontrollably. And I find that so fascinating. — Matthew Healy

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

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

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

I don't know whether we'll have another Michael Jackson or Elvis, because the world's too quick to level the playing field in that regard. For example, if Michael Jackson did the moonwalk for the first time now, and it debuted on Twitter, the third comment would probably be: "He's just walking backwards." — Matthew Healy

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

Never take a person away from the music they love. — Matthew Healy

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

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. — Matthew Healy