Frank Ocean Quotations

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.

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.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Whenever 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.

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

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.

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

My 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.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

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 play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

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

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

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

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

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

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.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

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

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

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 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.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

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'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.

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.

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

I'm not a centerfold.

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

I don't intend to stop making music.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

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

Of course awards matter.

When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

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

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

Why see the world / when you got the beach?

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.

My TV ain't HD, that's too real

Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

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

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

Being 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.

I'm about being the best.

I don't fear anybody... at all.

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion

This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

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

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

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

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

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

Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

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

Go for someone who is proud to have you.

I've been thinking about forever

I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.

Never run back to what broke you.

Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.

You can't think. You just have to do things.

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

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

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