Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.
Frank OceanIt'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.
Frank OceanIn 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.
Frank OceanWith my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.
Frank OceanI'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.
Frank OceanI enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
Frank OceanThe 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.
Frank OceanI'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.
Frank OceanI've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.
Frank OceanI 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.
Frank OceanWhenever 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.
Frank OceanWe 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.
Frank OceanThis unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup
Frank OceanI feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.
Frank OceanThe idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.
Frank OceanDon't ever play with someone's feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.
Frank OceanWe 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.
Frank OceanIt'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.
Frank OceanSome people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
Frank OceanMy grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.
Frank OceanI 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.
Frank Ocean