Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards. — 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
Arca was a project born immediately after I came out of the closet in New York. — 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 happens when… — Arca 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 is more… — Arca 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 in order… — Arca Copy Share Image
When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The… — 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 something that… — Arca 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 one day,… — Arca 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 on a… — 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 complication. — Arca 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 of me… — Arca 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 piece of… — Arca Copy Share Image
