Frank Ocean

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.'

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

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.

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

I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.