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I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

Frank Ocean

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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Effort Requirement Song Subject Unnecessary Writing
If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.
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Broken Heart Face Funny Heart Ice Cream Punch Sarcastic
I was a thug.
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One Liner Thug
Why see the world, when you got the beach?
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Beach Travel World
You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.
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Fun Possible Travel
My TV ain’t HD, that’s too real
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Real Television
I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.
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Business Content Creative Diminish Provide
I hope not to define myself by suffering.
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Hope Myself Suffering
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.
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Beyond Creator Experience Giving Writing
The work is the work. The work is not me.
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Hustle Work
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.
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Experience Flash Memories Ourselves Story
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.
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Book Growth Idle Inspirational Intention Productive Progress Solid
Any of us can live without affecting one another.
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Affection Each Other Live Love
I don’t intend to stop making music.
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Intend Music Stop
I don’t know if I ever told you this before, but you’re the only one I ever waited for this long.
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Break Up I Miss You Relationship Wait
Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.
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Boy Cry Past Shed Tears Teenage
It’s not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.
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Easy Emotion heavy Music Transparent
I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.
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Life Secret
I don’t know anything and neither do you.
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Explore Knowledge Life
Distance sometimes lets you know who’s worth keeping and who’s worth letting go.
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Distance Let Go Relationship Worth
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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Compassion Extreme Project Time
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.
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Art Career Hope Thinking Want Work
It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.
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Celebrity Fame Myself Public Figure Thinking
I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.
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Guess Story
I’ve been thinking about forever.
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Forever One Liner Thinking
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.
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Life Radio Season Sing Start
I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
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Director Film

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