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
When you're uncomfortable, that's when you learn something new about yourself. — Arca Education 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 Alike Copy Share Image
As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in. — Arca Attempting 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
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
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
I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had… — Arca Accidentally 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
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
I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me… — Arca Able 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
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
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
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
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
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
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make… — Arca Blank 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
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'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
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 Best 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
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 Better 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 Crave 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
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
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
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
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
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
