What Is the 1975?

"I've been in the 1975 since I was 13, so 12 isn't a person. So all of my self-analysis has been under the umbrella of what is the 1975? Who is the 1975?" "It's because it's my... It's who I am," he says about his bandmates' decision to leave Manchester and Solford Uni for university. 'History will tell you either go, all right, lads, I'm going to university. Or you go... I like how this feels.'