Frank Ocean Quotes

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

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

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 don’t intend to stop making music.

Because I’m not in a record deal, I don’t have to operate in an album format.

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.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

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

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

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

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.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

I make pop culture.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

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

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.