Frank Ocean Quotes
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All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
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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.
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I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.
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You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.
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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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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.
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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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Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.
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I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
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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 Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.
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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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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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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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I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.
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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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It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.
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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. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.
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I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.
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I'm not a centerfold.
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I might just write a novel next. I don't know!