Frank Ocean Quotes

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“I make pop culture.”

“Never run back to what broke you.”

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

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

“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.'”

“Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.”

“I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I'm big on what's in good taste.”

“I can operate in half-a-song format.”

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