Frank Ocean Quotes
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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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Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
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I worked my face off.
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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 had writer's block for almost a year.
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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 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.
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I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.
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I'm about being the best.
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I play piano every day. I enjoy that.
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You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.
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It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.
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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?
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The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?
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People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
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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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I'm not a centerfold.
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I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
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I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.
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Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.
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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.
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Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
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Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.
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Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.