Frank Ocean Quotes

“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.”

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

“I've been thinking about forever”

“I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.”

“I was a thug.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I hope not to define myself by suffering.”

“Go for someone who is proud to have you.”

“This has always been my life and no one else's, and that's how it's always been since the day I came in it.”

“Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.”

“I'm not a centerfold.”

“I don't know anything and neither do you.”

“Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.”

“The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.”

“Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.”

“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.”

“I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.”

“Why see the world / when you got the beach?”

“You can't think. You just have to do things.”

“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.”

“The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.”

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