Frank Ocean

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. ”

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

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder. ”

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

This has always been my life and no one else's, and that's how it's always been since the day I came in it. ”