"I made a mistake when we were booking shows, I wasn’t looking into it. I don’t see the fucking point, right? I do not see the point of inviting The 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with. And I’m sorry if that offends you and you’re religious, but your government are a bunch of fucking [...] and I don’t care anymore. If you push, I’m gonna push back. I’m not in the fucking mood. I’m not in the fucking mood anymore. I saw a TikTok the other day where I picked up a child that I love who’s a friend of mine’s child. And I put them down. And there was a TikTok conversation about whether my finger placement was appropriate. So what, we’re just casually accusing people of being pedophiles now, are we? For entertainment? Is that what we’re doing? No? Well it fucking looks like it. I’m not having a go at you, it’s people filming this. It fucking looks like it. You don’t casually insinuate that shit. I’m not in the fucking mood anymore. Unfortunately you don’t get a set of loads of uplifting songs because I’m fucking furious. And that’s not fair on you, because you’re not representative of your government. Because you’re young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progressive and cool. So I pulled the show yesterday. I pulled this show yesterday and we had a conversation, we said “you know what, we can’t let the kids down because they’re not the government”. But I’ve done this before. I’ve gone to a country where it’s fucking, I don’t know what it fucking is - ridiculous, it’s fucking ridiculous to tell people what they can do with that [points to dick] and that [points to mouth]. And if you want to invite me here to do a show, you can fuck off. I'll take your money, you can ban me, but I've done this before and it doesn't feel good. And I'm fucked off."
— Matty Healy before kissing Ross and singing I Like America & America Likes Me in Kuala Lumpur (July 21, 2023)
