Frank Ocean Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

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

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion

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 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.

I'm about being the best.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

Of course awards matter.