When you're uncomfortable, that's when you learn something new about yourself. — Arca Education Copy Share Image
I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in… — Arca Copy Share Image
I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight. — Arca Copy Share Image
I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of… — Arca Audience Copy Share Image
It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts. — Arca Darkness Copy Share Image
As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in. — Arca Copy Share Image
I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had… — Arca Copy Share Image
I have an interesting relationship with my voice. I give myself tons of freedom in how to engage with my voice because… — Arca Freedom Copy Share Image
I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not… — Arca Bored Copy Share Image
It's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that… — Arca Day Copy Share Image
When I met Bjork, I felt like it was a friendship first; it was like an oxygen you get from a person… — Arca Beautiful Copy Share Image
That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively,… — Arca Copy Share Image
You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same… — Arca Copy Share Image
When I was young, I put on performances for my family and my parents where I would dance like a woman, singing… — Arca Dance Copy Share Image
You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side… — Arca Boys Copy Share Image
The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's… — Arca Brain Copy Share Image
I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because,… — Arca Art Copy Share Image
A few years ago, I had an interest in making things that felt more like "pieces." That was when I was making… — Arca Copy Share Image
It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and… — Arca Copy Share Image
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make… — Arca Flow Copy Share Image
A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them… — Arca Artist Copy Share Image
I always make a point to make my records different. Let's say I have a record that's influenced by hip-hop in an… — Arca Hip hop Copy Share Image
I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while… — Arca Copy Share Image
Internally, we have so many different parts, both positive and negative. And if you force them together, a spark comes out. — Arca Copy Share Image
Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them. — Arca Drama Copy Share Image
A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them… — Arca Ashamed Copy Share Image
If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope… — Arca Dark Copy Share Image
Once you share what you're communicating with your audience, then you can make more sense of it in a subconscious way. — Arca Audience Copy Share Image
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards. — Arca Ashamed Copy Share Image
I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive. — Arca Agony Copy Share Image
I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while… — Arca Copy Share Image
