#topic: journaling

[tayfabe75]

"I don't really listen to The 1975 when I'm chilling at home. Of course it's different when I'm performing on stage… But you know, Oscar Wilde said something like, 'The best reason to keep a diary is to have something amazing to read on the train.' I mean, it's not about being self-interested, but it's just reflecting on your life. My journal is these albums over the past 10 years. It's beautiful. Nostalgia is beautiful."

October 19, 2022: Matty compares his discography to journals. (source)

[tayfabe75]

"I really like typewriters, as well. I don't have one with me 'cause that is really impractical. The thing is with typewriters and writing with pen to paper, there's a kind of an element of like, commitment, that goes with the ceremony of it, therefore it requires you to concentrate a bit better. So, I think it's important to have a book. It's mainly like, stories that I write about my dreams of being in love with other popstars."

December 3, 2018: Matty explains why a notebook is one of his essential items. (source)

[tayfabe75]

"We make music for fun. I keep saying the same thing, but like, it's like keeping a journal. You know, most people want to keep a journal and they start it when they're an adult, but they don't actually do it. You'll find with most people that do keep a journal as an adult, they've been doing it since like twelve or thirteen, and they're like, 'I don't know why I do it'. It just happens… It's a ceremony. If I don't do it, I feel weird. So, that's what I'm like, and that's what we're like with music. So, the music just builds up. Like, it happens regardless of whether there's an incoming album or whatever."

October 14, 2022: Matty compares the process of writing music to writing in a journal. (source)

[tayfabe75]

"You'll find that a lot of people who journal as an adult have been doing it since they were about twelve or thirteen. People will try and do it, but it'll drop off. The people who still do it kind of don't know why they do it, it's just part of their day. They feel weird if they don't. That's The 1975 for me. That's The 1975 for all of us. If I don't do that, it feels odd. It's a bit like therapy. You go into therapy and you say, 'I feel like this and the reason I feel like this is because of that'. And then a good therapist will go, 'Are you sure you don't feel like this, and are you sure that the reason you don't feel like this is because of that?' And you go, 'Oh my god'. That happens to me with songs all the time. I think I've written something about something and then some seventeen-year-old kid is like 'Oh yeah, you know how that song is about this,' and I'm like, whoa."

February 2, 2023: In an interview with Tom Power, Matty discusses journaling and how insightful fans can be when they interpret his songs. (source)