May 20, 2024
"Treat old stuff as the artist you are now, not as the artist you were then. 'Cause I wouldn't have Sex or Robbers or… if I'd have done that. I was 17 when I wrote Sex and I was 18 when I wrote Chocolate and Robbers and then I didn't make a debut album until I was 23. And 18 to 23, you're very different or you see yourself as a very different person at that time so, I'd like grown out of those songs by that point and… but there's something about them, and then my manager just like, convinced… demanded that I put them on the record."
April 13, 2019: Matty talks about his appreciation for the songs he wrote as a teenager, despite having outgrown them. (source)