Quotes from Frank Ocean

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

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.

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

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.

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?

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

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.

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

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

I don't intend to stop making music.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

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

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

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

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.