Arca

“If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more meaningful.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's grotesque to believe the body we inhabit we want to inhabit 24/7.”

“I never judge my song titles; I just spit them out.”

“I hoped that being attracted to men might go away, but what I never ever hoped would go away were the feelings of femininity, and of softness and fragility, that could live inside of a boy. They were private, but they were 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 want to make music until I die.”

“It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts.”

“I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because, maybe in their head, what that means is that they're making it for someone who they don't think is real. Their audience isn't real. But it's still a communicative act. It's still an outward manifestation of longing.”

“Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.”

“A mother isn't someone who does it on purpose; mothers are who they are, and just by existing, they affect the way other people negotiate with the environment and with themselves.”

“I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight.”

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

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

“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 abstract way; for the next record, I'd try not to do that. They are all connected in a personal way but it's important not to repeat myself, because then I can always learn something about myself through my work.”

“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.”

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

“Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.”