Quotes from Frank Ocean

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 never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Some 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.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

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

My only nightmare is waking up in a world were you're not mine.

If you don't want me now, don't miss me later.

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

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.

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

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

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

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