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 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
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
'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'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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
