I like contradictions, and I like exceptions. I don't like rules and dogma. — Arca Contradictions Copy Share Image
With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time. — Arca Health Copy Share Image
I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself. — Arca Ashamed Copy Share Image
'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted. — Arca Copy Share Image
I knew that I would have to leave Venezuela in order to figure out who I was. — Arca Copy Share Image
Arca was a project born immediately after I came out of the closet in New York. — Arca Copy Share Image
When I was about 13, and I would write in my journal, I'd be like, 'I just watched 'Spice World,' the Spice… — Arca Copy Share Image
It's been a growth process for each of us to understand why we find certain things beautiful. And if we do find… — Arca Beautiful Copy Share Image
There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try… — Arca Copy Share Image
I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me… — Arca Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot from every musical collaboration I've ever had, but there's something about my relationship with Bjork that is special… — Arca Collaboration Copy Share Image
There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more… — Arca Breathing Copy Share Image
It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet… — Arca Copy Share Image
I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don't ever… — Arca Age Copy Share Image
There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. There's often two words that are close in… — Arca Beautiful Copy Share Image
Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety -… — Arca Anxiety Copy Share Image
It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words… — Arca Language Copy Share Image
Arca means 'box' or 'wooden' in very old Spanish. It's a ceremonial container where you store jewelry or valuables, an empty space… — Arca Container Copy Share Image
I hoped that being attracted to men might go away, but what I never ever hoped would go away were the feelings… — Arca Feelings Copy Share Image
I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a… — Arca Breathing Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to say, 'I'm not making music. I am getting catharsis for emotion.' For me, vulnerability is… — Arca Catharsis Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that the best way for me to grow is in a very self-forgiving way: to take a… — Arca Copy Share Image
I think there's a certain poetry to having your body reflect what you feel inside of you. Perhaps you have a feeling… — Arca Body Copy Share Image
I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things… — Arca Femininity Copy Share Image
Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that… — Arca Gesture Copy Share Image
When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot… — Arca Confidence 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 Copy Share Image
With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some… — Arca Character Copy Share Image
I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I… — Arca Copy Share Image
If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels… — Arca Copy Share Image
If I gravitate toward someone, I bridge the gap between us somehow, and I accidentally maybe start seeing the world through their… — Arca Copy Share Image
Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to… — Arca Copy Share Image
Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's… — Arca Deep sadness Copy Share Image
I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love… — Arca Copy Share Image
We try and banish whole inner realms. Sometimes, you have to touch the thing inside you're most afraid of and see what… — Arca Copy Share Image
Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come… — Arca Copy Share Image
When I was making 'Xen,' I was surprised at how introverted some of the songs were. I wasn't deliberately trying to go… — Arca Copy Share Image
A mother isn't someone who does it on purpose; mothers are who they are, and just by existing, they affect the way… — Arca Mother Copy Share Image
