“We try and banish whole inner realms. Sometimes, you have to touch the...” — Arca Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will.'”

“I know that you cannot banish the truth permanently, you can only cloud it temporarily.”

“My first task is to show how great we are as a nation - let's banish the pessimists.”

“I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish greys and drizzle. I love the cities of the Spanish interior.”

“We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.”

“You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.”