Frank Ocean Quotes

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.

Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

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.

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.

Never run back to what broke you.

I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.

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

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

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

If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

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

Go for someone who is proud to have you.

Smile, it's easier than explaning why you're sad

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

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

I've been thinking about forever

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. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

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.

It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

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

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Why see the world / when you got the beach?

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

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

I don't know anything and neither do you.

My TV ain't HD, that's too real

People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they could do the same just because I'm black. They could do the same just because I'm American.

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

I'm about being the best.

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

What do you think my brain is made for? Is it just a container for the mind? This great grey matter, Sensei replied what is your woman, Is she just a container for the child? That soft pink matter

When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

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.

You can't think. You just have to do things.

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.

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.

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

I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.

I don't fear anybody... at all.

Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.

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.

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 not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.

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.

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.

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.

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.