Frank Ocean Quotes

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.

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

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

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

I wrote ‘Channel Orange’ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

Don’t ever play with someone’s feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.

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?

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

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.

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

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 not a centerfold.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.