Quotes from Arca

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

The first CD I bought was Brandy and Monica's 'The Boy Is Mine.'

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things is really fertile.

Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.

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 to me.

As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.

I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.

The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.

'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.

I feel like every record I've ever made, on some level, is urgent.

I knew that I would have to leave Venezuela in order to figure out who I was.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

Once you share what you're communicating with your audience, then you can make more sense of it in a subconscious way.

Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.

I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don't ever let that be known.

When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.

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 music has its own kind of agency.

There's something in glitchy music that I like to get lost in.