The 1975's Matty Healy has never been afraid to write lyrics on big-ticket issues, but he's taking on a “less sexy set of circumstances” — like responsibility and the future — as he grows up.
“Obviously there’s an element of codependency between us,” he continues. “We grew up together. The longest I’ve ever spent away from any of those guys is probably a week.”
Throughout this long-running relationship with one another, the band has kept things quite small, even amid their ever-growing public stature. Healy says he’s not only the singer and mouthpiece for the 1975, but also art-directed the entirety of the band’s upcoming tour. “I’m not somebody who turns up to a prebuilt stage and signs off on it,” he says. “It’s an exciting proposition but I think it’s just an extension of what we’ve always done, because I’ve always been super hands-on.
Now, as he waits to head out on the road, Healy is just trying to keep his mind occupied. On the days when he is not working, just sitting around and watching YouTube, “those are the times where I feel sick or I get a migraine. If I’m not doing, I’m too much in my brain.”While his principal vice used to be heroin, he went to rehab in 2017 after pleas from his bandmates to stop using. Now he says he doesn’t “even want to do it anymore. That’s not really a thing. I’m lucky ’cause of that.