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
When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about… — Arca Dreams 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 Inner 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 Better 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
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 Areas 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
There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try… — Arca Different 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 End 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
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
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
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
I knew that I would have to leave Venezuela in order to figure out who I was. — Arca Figure Copy Share Image
Arca was a project born immediately after I came out of the closet in New York. — Arca Born 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 Inward 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 like contradictions, and I like exceptions. I don't like rules and dogma. — Arca Contradictions 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
Making music can get so emotional that, if you don't set limits for yourself, it can push you or the person that… — Arca Breaking point Copy Share Image
I have a very healthy dose of scepticism towards what identity is and what personas are, maybe because of my life journey.… — Arca Identity 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 Doe 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 Darling 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 Embrace 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
Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to… — Arca Best 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
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
A few years ago, I had an interest in making things that felt more like "pieces." That was when I was making… — Arca Composed 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
