I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me. Matthew Healy More Quotes by Matthew Healy More Quotes From Matthew Healy 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 starsyearsthinking 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 readingwritingtrying I think early on I was really into ambient music and like American original Emo. Matthew Healy ambient-musicemothinking I think the less individuality you portray... not individuality but like the more solidarity you have the better. Matthew Healy solidarityindividualitythinking 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. Matthew Healy recordstryingway Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible. Matthew Healy rocksstarsreal 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 levelsexampleworld I think that the internet is a beast of burden. Matthew Healy beastinternetthinking 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. Matthew Healy influencepersonswould-be What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing. Matthew Healy swimmingreadingwriting I don't believe in anything blindly supernatural. Matthew Healy dont-believebelieve 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 oppositesactioncharacter 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 ambassadorsgrowing-upcreative As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write. Matthew Healy creativereadingwriting There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide. Matthew Healy genreadvice I need to keep my dancing on the right side of weird, otherwise it might get a bit like "American Idol." Matthew Healy dancingidolsneeds 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. Matthew Healy trackwaitingpeople 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 assforesightmean We had this realisation that we'd sort of travelled from my bedroom to America and all these people are watching us and that was awesome. 11 shows in 5 days I mean if we weren't going out, we were on stage, it was huge. Matthew Healy meanamericapeople I like the idea of characters without shame, who hold nothing back. Matthew Healy shamecharacterideas
