Quotes from Frank Ocean

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

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

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

I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.'

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.

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

When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

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.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.

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 gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noice.

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.

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.

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

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

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

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