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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.

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My Life, Studio, Became, Stevie

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.

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Want, Will, Oftentimes, Scenario

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

- Frank Ocean

Like, Maybe, Mine, Duke

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

- Frank Ocean

Strengths, Idea, Using, Versatile

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

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Famous, Fact, Daft, Robot

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.

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Love, Next, I Write, Sonic

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.

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Interconnected, About, Recognised

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.

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Mom, University, Contractor, Honors

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.

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Retail, Records, About, Territories

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

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Insurance, Other, Studio, Claims

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

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Project, Loving, Outer, Shell

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

- Frank Ocean

Always, Being, Focal, Unhealthy

I don't intend to stop making music.

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Music, Stop, Making, Intend

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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Product, Always, Gritty, Two Weeks

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

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Think, Shed, Chunk, Teenage Years

It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.

- Frank Ocean

Interesting, More, Figure, Naive

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block.

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Want, Getting, Almost, Block

I had writer's block for almost a year.

- Frank Ocean

Year, Had, Almost, Block

I'm about being the best.

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Best, About, Being, Being The Best

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.'

- Frank Ocean

Doing, University, Moved, Dorm

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

- Frank Ocean

Think, How, Figure, Articulate

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

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Cool, Fame, Made, Anonymity

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

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Like, Directors, Films, Anonymity

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.

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Through, Over, Studio, Adhere

Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

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Play, Think, Here, Journalism

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.

- Frank Ocean

Memory, Telling, Linear, Flashes

When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

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Song, Like, Amount, Androgynous

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.

- Frank Ocean

Movie, Painted, Bit, Cinematography

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.

- Frank Ocean

Touch, Merit, Subjective, Risky

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.

- Frank Ocean

My Life, Studio, Became, Season

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