Higgs noted that in comparison to the complexity of the songs on Man Alive, the songwriting on Arc was intended to be a simpler distillation of his ideas and a more direct expression of his emotion.
Higgs bemærkede, at i forhold til kompleksiteten af de sange, om Man Alive, var sangskrivning på Arc ment til at være en enklere destillation af hans ideer, og et mere direkte udtryk for sine følelser.