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

- Frank Ocean

I'm not a centerfold.

- Frank Ocean

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

- Frank Ocean

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

- Frank Ocean

Of course awards matter.

- Frank Ocean

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.

- Frank Ocean

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

- Frank Ocean

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

- Frank Ocean

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

- Frank Ocean

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

- Frank Ocean

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

- Frank Ocean

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.

- Frank Ocean

I don't intend to stop making music.

- Frank Ocean

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

- Frank Ocean

I make pop culture.

- Frank Ocean

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.

- Frank Ocean

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. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

- Frank Ocean

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.

- Frank Ocean

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.

- Frank Ocean

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.

- Frank Ocean