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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.
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Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.
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I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block.
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I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.
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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.
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I don't intend to stop making music.
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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.
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It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.
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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.
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I can operate in half-a-song format.
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When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.'
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Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
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Collection: Inspirational
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Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.
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Collection: Hate
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Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.
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Collection: Trust
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When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
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Collection: Happiness
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Never run back to what broke you.
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Collection: Running
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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.
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Collection: Heartbreak
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Those who are heartless, once cared too much.
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Collection: Sad
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Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.
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Collection: Letting Go
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Smile, it's easier than explaning why you're sad
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Collection: Easier
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I don't know anything and neither do you.
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Collection: Knows
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I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.
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Collection: Love
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You can't think. You just have to do things.
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Collection: Thinking
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I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.
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Collection: Believe
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If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.
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Collection: Break Up
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I've been thinking about forever
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Collection: Thinking
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Go for someone who is proud to have you.
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Collection: Proud
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Don't ever play with someone's feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.
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Collection: Winning
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Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.
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Collection: Lying
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Why see the world / when you got the beach?
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Collection: Beach
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I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.
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Collection: Believe
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With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.
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Collection: Art
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It's not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.
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Collection: Emotion
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The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.
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Collection: Being Lied
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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.
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Collection: Excellence
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It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.
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Collection: Love You
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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.
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Collection: Communication
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The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.
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Collection: Ideas
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If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion
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Collection: Knees
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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.
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Collection: Hurt
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When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics
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Collection: Enjoy
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My TV ain't HD, that's too real
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Collection: Real
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This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup
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Collection: Unrequited Love
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As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.
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Collection: Artist
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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.
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Collection: Writing
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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.
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Collection: Moving
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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.
- Frank Ocean
Collection: Directors
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Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.
- Frank Ocean
Collection: Team

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