Frank Ocean Quotes
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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.
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I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.
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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.
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I hope not to define myself by suffering.
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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.'
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You can't think; you just gotta do things.
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There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
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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.
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As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.
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I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.
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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.
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Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.
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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.
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I don't intend to stop making music.
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Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
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I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.
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It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.
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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.'
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I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.
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I had writer's block for almost a year.
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I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.
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A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
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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.
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People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.