Arca was a project born immediately after I came out of the closet in New York. — Arca 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
