“We know when I’m addicted to smack, and we pick me up. George is dramatically depressed—we rally around him. One of us had a baby—so we had a baby, and when the baby is backstage, the greenroom is like a crèche. There’s a ‘Wizard of Oz’ element to us. One of us needs a heart, one of us needs a brain, one of us needs this other thing, and we’re all on the road together.”
— Matty Healy to Jia Tolentino for The New Yorker's Who Is Matty Healy (May 29 2023)