Frank Ocean

"There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness."

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

"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."

"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."

"I don't intend to stop making music."

"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 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.'"

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

"I'm about being the best."

"It's cool to be recognised by your peers."

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

"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."

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

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

"The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool."

"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."