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Every day I am trying to improve my life.
Alicia Machado
Life
Day
Every Day
My Life
Every
Am
Improve
Trying
I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.
Alicia Machado
Great
Me
Achievement
People
Remember
Will
First
Universe
Remember Me
Miss
Know
Because
Still
Whole
Career
Great Achievement
I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.
Alicia Machado
Music
Me
Projects
Would
Give
Give Me
Like
Making
Continue
Lot
Acting
Satisfaction
Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive.
Alicia Machado
Love
Me
You
Men
Aggressive
Think
Guess
Say
Could
Couple
Well
Falling
Falling In Love
Times
Happened
Really
Less
Actually
Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.
Alicia Machado
Men
Daughter
Think
Brothers
Guy
Only
Along
Like
Well
Because
Always
Gotten
Cousins
Bunch
Really
Amongst
Four
Raised
Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.
Alicia Machado
Love
Women
Feelings
Fall
Our
Ability
More
Terms
Women Are
Little
Express
Assertive
'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.
Arca
Myself
Me
Extroverted
Response
Mutant
More
Excursion
Inward
Necessary
I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.
Arca
Music
Me
Important
More
Until
Make
Audience
Than
Die
Size
Want
Interested
It's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day, you wake up feeling masculine, and one day, you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.
Arca
Life
Day
Me
You
Wake Up
Girl
My Life
Feeling
Living
States
Those
One Day
About
Masculine
Between
Most
Also
Boy
Feminine
Wake
Fertile
Up
Just
In-Between
Flickering
Two
Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.
Arca
Language
Important
Fluently
Makes
Languages
Speaking
Each
Two
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.
Arca
Space
Though
Allowing
Recurring
Instinctively
Been
Exist
Huge
Up
Same
Might
Even
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
Things
Two
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.
Arca
Music
Me
Try
Subconscious
Sit
Down
Enter
Out
Something
Only
Blank
Allow
Open
Feel
Come
Like
Piece
Make
Does
Always
Making
Trying
Done
Just
After
Might
Organize
Flow
Session
Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.
Arca
Music
Dreams
Best
Me
Thought
First
Important
Own
Live
Took
One Of The Things
Russell
Lawrence
My Own
Make
Him
Read
Tim
Very
Arthur
Hold
Your
Your Dreams
Many
Many Levels
Away
Things
Biography
Levels
I've never written a happy love song.
Arca
Love
Happy
Song
Never
Written
I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.
Arca
Destruction
Chaos
Alive
Part
Weird
Exist
Undoubtedly
Texture
Being
Agony
Agreement
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.
Arca
Me
Suffering
Sadness
Gone
Down
Difficulty
Someone
Something
More
Through
Never
Powerful
Look
Than
Represents
Being
Refusing
I'm an all-or-nothing person.
Arca
Person
I never judge my song titles; I just spit them out.
Arca
Song
Judge
Out
Spit
Never
Just
Titles
Them
I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.
Arca
You
Yourself
Softness
Weapons
Feel
Like
Learned
Vulnerability
Against
Ashamed
Use
Things
It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts.
Arca
You
Darkness
Impossible
Out
Pretend
Something
Until
Bursts
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.
Arca
You
Feeling
Out
Compulsion
Feel
Behaviour
Afterwards
Ashamed
Then
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.
Arca
People
Mother
Other
Way
Negotiate
Someone
Purpose
Environment
Does
Mothers
Affect
Existing
Just
Themselves
Who
Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.
Arca
You
Drama
See
Like
Catharsis
Because
Felt
Greeks
Get
Where
Happening
Them
When I was young, I put on performances for my family and my parents where I would dance like a woman, singing a really exaggerated woman's vocal in front of my whole family.
Arca
Family
Woman
Dance
Parents
Singing
Young
Would
Exaggerated
Vocal
Put
Performance
Like
Front
Where
Really
Whole
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.
Arca
Music
Time
Myself
Me
People
Gesture
Side
Once
Way
Eye
Out
Outward
Look
Reaching
Inward
Make
Because
Making
Same
Same Time
Might
Help
I've learned a lot from every musical collaboration I've ever had, but there's something about my relationship with Bjork that is special to me.
Arca
Me
Relationship
Every
Collaboration
Musical
About
Something
Had
Learned
Lot
Special
Ever
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