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" I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years. "

" Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format. "

" It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider. "

" I'm not a centerfold. "

" I might just write a novel next. I don't know! "

" I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time. "

" You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible. "

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

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

" I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function. "

" 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. "

" 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 had writer's block for almost a year. "

" I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important. "

" I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio. "

" I'm about being the best. "

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

" Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean. "

" I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro. "

" 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. "