Healy: “I think I couldn't give myself any advice apart from just do exactly what I want."

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."

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

Healy: "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."

Healy: "It's only about authenticity."

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."

Healy: “I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it."

Healy: “I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me."

Healy: “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."

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

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."

Healy: “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."

Healy: "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."

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

Healy: "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."

Healy: "I think everything in life is an evolution, isn't it?"

Healy: “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 bullsh*t.'"