It's grotesque to believe the body we inhabit we want to inhabit 24/7.
I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight.
Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.
I feel like every record I've ever made, on some level, is urgent.
Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way.
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.
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.
Arca was a project born immediately after I came out of the closet in New York.
Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.
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.
If I gravitate toward someone, I bridge the gap between us somehow, and I accidentally maybe start seeing the world through their eyes.
As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.
I like contradictions, and I like exceptions. I don't like rules and dogma.
'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.
I've come to the conclusion that the best way for me to grow is in a very self-forgiving way: to take a risk and, in response to how a record pans out, take a risk in the opposite charge.
Hip-hop, at its best, is disruptive.
There's something in glitchy music that I like to get lost in.
I think there's a certain poetry to having your body reflect what you feel inside of you. Perhaps you have a feeling that's so pure, or overwhelming inside of you that your body disfigures to it - contortions match your confusion.
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.
Once you share what you're communicating with your audience, then you can make more sense of it in a subconscious way.
