Arca Quotes

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

The goal is never be a copycat of ourselves. It's more along the lines of taking risks in our music.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

I'm not gonna do the same album over and over and over again.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.

Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.

Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.