"I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect."

“But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.”

“I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.”

Source : "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

“I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.”

Source : "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.

“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”

“Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.”

“A thousand of old man are just able to dream, but a young man is able to change the world!”

“There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

“My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.”