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When I was younger, I used to say, 'I'm not making music. I am getting catharsis for emotion.' For me, vulnerability is an act of uncovering. It's a revealing: the idea of putting aside your armour and allowing pain to enter.
- Arca
#I Am
#Me
#Music
#Pain
#Vulnerability
Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.
- Arca
#Because
#Drama
#Like
#See
#Where
I have a very healthy dose of scepticism towards what identity is and what personas are, maybe because of my life journey. Identity is something so malleable.
- Arca
#Identity
#Journey
#Life
#Maybe
#My Life
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.
- Arca
#Find
#Grey
#Human
#Try
#Us
Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.
- Arca
#Look
#Me
#Never
#Powerful
#Suffering
We try and banish whole inner realms. Sometimes, you have to touch the thing inside you're most afraid of and see what happens when you touch it rather than look away from it all the time.
- Arca
#Look
#See
#Sometimes
#Time
#Try
Arca means 'box' or 'wooden' in very old Spanish. It's a ceremonial container where you store jewelry or valuables, an empty space that can become pregnant with whatever music or meaning I give to it.
- Arca
#Jewelry
#Meaning
#Music
#Old
#Space
It's grotesque to believe the body we inhabit we want to inhabit 24/7.
- Arca
#Believe
#Body
#Grotesque
#Inhabit
#Want
When I met Bjork, I felt like it was a friendship first; it was like an oxygen you get from a person you only can exist with symbiotically. It's one of the most beautiful relationships I've had. She is incredible.
- Arca
#Beautiful
#Friendship
#Most Beautiful
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.
- Arca
#Brain
#Funny
#Me
#Moment
#Music
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.
- Arca
#Femininity
#Guess
#Masculinity
#Two
#Us
I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.
- Arca
#Ashamed
#Feel
#Vulnerability
#Yourself
When you're uncomfortable, that's when you learn something new about yourself.
- Arca
#New
#Something
#Uncomfortable
#Yourself
I like contradictions, and I like exceptions. I don't like rules and dogma.
- Arca
#Dogma
#Exceptions
#Like
#Rules
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.
- Arca
#Better
#Every
#Human
#Just
#Think
If I gravitate toward someone, I bridge the gap between us somehow, and I accidentally maybe start seeing the world through their eyes.
- Arca
#Bridge
#Eyes
#Seeing
#Start
#World
Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.
- Arca
#Best
#Dreams
#Live
#Music
#Your Dreams
I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.
- Arca
#Agreement
#Alive
#Chaos
#Exist
#Weird
It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and personal. It's almost like dating: you allow yourself to be consumed by the other - not in a bad way, but in a way that happens in nature.
- Arca
#Bad
#Dating
#Music
#Nature
#Way
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