“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
— Frank Ocean
“Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.”
“When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.”
“Never run back to what broke you.”
“I’m about being the best.”
“Those who are heartless, once cared too much.”
“Distance sometimes lets you know who’s worth keeping and who’s worth letting go.”
“Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.”
“Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.”
“Smile, it’s easier than explaning why you’re sad.”
“Go for someone who is proud to have you.”
“There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.”
“Don’t ever play with someone’s feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.”
“Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.”
“I don’t know if I ever told you this before, but you’re the only one I ever waited for this long.”
“You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.”
“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 idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.”
“We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.”
“My TV ain’t HD, that’s too real.”
“I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and woman; but between love and love.”
“If it brings me to my knees, it’s a bad religion.”
“I don’t know anything and neither do you.”
“I’ve been thinking about forever.”
“If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.”
“I’m extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn’t project that all the time.”
“I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.”
“It’s a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.”
“The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.”
“It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.”
“As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.”
“Each individual’s success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.”
“Of course awards matter.”
“With my art, it’s the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.”
“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 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’m not a centerfold.”
“I play piano every day. I enjoy that.”
“My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.”
“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 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.”
“I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.”
“As a writer, as a creator, I’m giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain’t got to pry beyond that.”
“As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.”
“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.”
“Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.”
“A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.”
“I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.”
“I don’t intend to stop making music.”
“I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I might just write a novel next. I don’t know!”
“I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.”
“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.”
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