Frank Ocean Quotes

If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.

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.

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?

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.

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

It's not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.

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

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

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

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.

Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.

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.'

Smile, it's easier than explaning why you're sad

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

Never run back to what broke you.

I make pop culture.

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

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

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

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.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

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.

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.

It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

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.

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.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block.

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.

I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

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

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.

People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they could do the same just because I'm black. They could do the same just because I'm American.

I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.

I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.

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.

I had writer's block for almost a year.

Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.

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.

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

I've gotten used to being 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?

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

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

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

What do you think my brain is made for?Is it just a container for the mind?This great grey matter,Sensei replied what is your woman,Is she just a container for the child?That soft pink matter

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.

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

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.