A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
Frank OceanBeing singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.
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 OceanSome 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.
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