"A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life." — Frank Ocean

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A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

- Frank Ocean

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My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

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

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

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.'

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.

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

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A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.