Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Frank Ocean

Time Art Ways

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Frank Ocean

Truth Us T

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Frank Ocean

You Us UN

I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Frank Ocean

Change Without Wit

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

Frank Ocean

Good Your You

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Frank Ocean

Time Life Hope

You can't think; you just gotta do things.

Frank Ocean

You Us Think

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

Frank Ocean

Trust Great Art

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

Frank Ocean

Cool T Net

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

Frank Ocean

T Secrets Secret

Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

Frank Ocean

Teen Good Age

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

Frank Ocean

Fear Us Too Much

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Frank Ocean

Strength Cool Your

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

Frank Ocean

Men Wing Win

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

Frank Ocean

Life Ya Taking

I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

Frank Ocean

Life Wrote Weeks

I'm about being the best.

Frank Ocean

T Out He

I don't fear anybody... at all.

Frank Ocean

Fear T Ear

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

Frank Ocean

Cool Your You

I was a thug.

Frank Ocean

Thug T Hug

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

Frank Ocean

Life Art You

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

Frank Ocean

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

Frank Ocean

I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

Frank Ocean

It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.

Frank Ocean

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.

Frank Ocean

Of course awards matter.

Frank Ocean

I had writer's block for almost a year.

Frank Ocean

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Frank Ocean

When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

Frank Ocean

Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

Frank Ocean

I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

Frank Ocean

I don't intend to stop making music.

Frank Ocean

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Frank Ocean

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

Frank Ocean

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Frank Ocean

I believe that I'm one of the best in the world at what I do, and that's all I've ever wanted to be.

Frank Ocean

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Frank Ocean

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

Frank Ocean

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

Frank Ocean

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

Frank Ocean

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.'

Frank Ocean

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

Frank Ocean

I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.'

Frank Ocean

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Frank Ocean

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

Frank Ocean

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Frank Ocean

I'm big on what's in good taste.

Frank Ocean

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Frank Ocean

I need to know how many records I've sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we're gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something.

Frank Ocean

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Frank Ocean