"I don't like people who create drama in their life in order to get material, whether it be a song- I hate that, because I just think that taking risks in your art is one thing, and it's something that should be separate from your life. But, I do like the kind of- the people that have interested me the most in my life, people like, you know, Andy Kaufman is probably like, my hero, My biggest hero ... 'cause there's these levels of transgression, isn't there? And there's like punk, there's like GG Allin, where you're like transgressive in a way that it's really obvious. You just really re-establish the order that 'I shouldn't be doing something', but if you do something that you shouldn't be doing, but people don't know whether you shouldn't be doing it, or whether it's real or it's not, like Kaufman used to do. I like these lines of like, blurring between what people consider is real. Because with the internet now, there's also a forum. So, there's a lot of conversation right now about like, whether I'm back on drugs, or whether the show is real."
February 2, 2023: In an interview with Tom Power, Matty calls Andy Kaufman his hero, and that he likes blurring the line between what people consider real. (source)
