Matt Healy of The 1975 has said that he'll 'always find ways of disliking himself'.
Speaking to Digital Spy backstage at Reading Festival, the frontman described how performing in front of thousands of people "plays with your ego".
"I'm not talking about arrogance, I'm talking about your knowledge and your self-awareness. Your sense of self. It makes you realise that you're touching a lot of people, you really are," Healy explained.
"It's a really deeply humbling feeling because it's quite transcendent and it feels slightly surreal. I don't feel any different, all those songs were written in my bedroom in my head, and now they're just out there being part of other people's lives."
The 25 year-old agreed that there's a feeling of exposure that comes from sharing such a personal album with thousands of people in a crowd.
"I feel like that record's so neurotic and so self-deprecating and self-loathing, and there's a genuine distaste for my behaviour. To even talk about that let alone expose it is a bit of a weird idea, but that's what all the best music's like," he said.
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Healy added that he still feels the self-deprecation and self-loathing that features in the lyrics on his band's debut album.
"Of course I do. That never really goes away, because that's not something that's part of your projected self. That's not something that's part of the forefront of your consciousness, that's only something that comes retrospectively," he said.
"It only comes with self-analysis and being that analytical and that neurotic, like I am. I don't think that'll ever leave me.
"I think I've bettered myself and I've amended situations, but I'm always going to find ways of disliking myself because that's just part of who I am."
Watch The 1975 performing 'Settle Down' live at Reading Festival below:
