Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Frank Ocean Quotes
CreativityArtPlayfulnessCollaborationPassion I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
CreativityBusinessImportance I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.
EnjoymentMusicArtCreativity I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
CreativityContent Creation I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.
IntentionsGrowthProductivityAction As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.
IdentityRole ModelsHomophobiaInfluenceCourage When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.
ArtFilmMusic Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.
ConfidenceMasterySelf BeliefAmbitionExcellence I believe that I'm one of the best in the world at what I do, and that's all I've ever wanted to be.
Music SalesStreaming AnalyticsMarket AnalysisEvent PlanningBusiness Strategy I need to know how many records I've sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we're gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something.
EmotionVulnerabilityEmotional Suppression Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.
MusicJournalismAction Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.
Self-DiscoveryTechnologyExperimentationReflection The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.
MemoryNon-LinearityPerception How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.
CreativityStruggleAuthenticity I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.
PrioritiesPerspectiveAuthenticitySuccess It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.
PerseveranceEducationFamilyOvercoming Adversity 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.
VersatilityOpen-mindednessSelf-AwarenessGrowthAuthenticity 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.
RiskFearPerceptionExcessive Fear 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.
Film ArtMusicalityRhythmEditing 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.
ColorPerception In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.
Self-centerednessHumilityWell-beingLifestyle As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
LegacyHumilityRecognition Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.
InfluenceConnectionInterconnectedness I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
HumilityCreative ExpressionCollaborationAuthenticity I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
AuthenticityTrustIntegrityRelationship BuildingSimplicity There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
MusicStorytellingCreativityMathematicsSymmetry 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.
SuccessAuthenticityCreativityConfidenceExpression 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.'
ArtBig Picture ThinkingSelflessnessLegacyVisionary Perspective I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.
CreativityGift vs. BurdenSufferingStrugglePhilosophy of Life 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.
Communication You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.
EvacuationHurricaneAdversity I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.'
LeadershipConvictionCourageEffectiveness I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.