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"It's very easy to be Peter Pan when you do what I do, and of course you're gonna be Peter Pan! But you have to grow up, nobody likes an old infant, it's a very ugly thing."

Between his consequences-be-damned outspokenness, confessional lyrics, tattoos in odd places and red-wine-out-of-the-bottle slurping, posturing, leather trousered and typically shirtless stagecraft ("a sort of emo Peter Pan self-lacerating Pied Piper kind of character" is how he rather fantastically describes himself), Healy elicits adoration above all things. Particularly among people of a certain age and gender. "Playing to 10,000 screaming young women who hang on your every word and live their lives soundtracked by your music or a bunch of crusty north London liberals – I'm telling you, anybody would pick that. Because it fucking means something to them."

"Should we all expect a collab with Taylor Swift?" "No. That would probably be… that would be good, but unfortunately not. I mean, we're just focusing on making our own record, you know? I think that people… If there's… like, working with people, it has to come naturally. You can't think, 'Oh, I want to work with this person because they're that person,' you know? Then you're gonna create art that isn't really, really meaningful. Whereas, for example, you know, you just need to pick the right people for the right things. So maybe there will be a couple of features on this next record, but it'll very much be our record. We're not going to do 'feat. Will.I.Am… you know? We're not going to start doing that." "Everybody knows that there were swirling rumors about you and Taylor Swift, so how would you feel if ever you became the subject of a Taylor Swift song? 'Cause you know how she always writes about her exes, right? What if you were on a Taylor Swift song?" "Oh that'd be amazing, wouldn't it? That would be very, very erm… it would be a nice way of kind of… haha, I don't know!" "Do you think it will be a bitter song or a happy song?" "It won't be… it won't be an anything song, because there was nothing there to report about, unfortunately. Erm, but she's just… erm, I don't know, that would be nice. It would always be nice to be the subject of somebody's affection, but I think that's my job, isn't it, really? Now that's what I do." "You know what, personal opinion, I think you and her would be really cute together."