Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Christopher Francis "Frank" Ocean, is an American singer, songwriter and rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana. Ocean embarked on his musical career as a ghostwriter for several prominent artists, including John Legend, Justin Bieber and Brandy. In 2010, he became a member of alternative hip hop collective Odd Future. Ocean subsequently released his breakout mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, to critical acclaim in 2011. It generated his first charting single "Novacane". In 2012, Ocean finished in second place in BBC's Sound of 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth28 October 1987
CityLong Beach, CA
CountryUnited States of America
As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.
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.
I don't intend to stop making music.
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.
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 idea of recognising 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.
With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.
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.
Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.
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.
I've been thinking about forever
You can't think. You just have to do things.