Frank Ocean answered questions about his life, process, and his views on a number of topics in a new interview with Dazed. Frank, who rarely gives interviews, answered questions from luminaries like Rosalía, John Waters, Arca, Billy Porter, Janet Mock, JPEGMAFIA, Big Freedia, Rex Orange County, and more. It was Nile Rodgers who pressed him on the long-overdue vinyl release of Channel Orange. It’s coming “ASAP,” Frank replied.

JPEGMAFIA pressed Frank about releasing Blonde immediately after departing Def Jam. “How did it feel fucking over a label like that,” he asked, adding, “Old white n***as do that to us all the time, but how did it feel giving them a taste of their own elixir? And what did you build in the video for Endless? Can I live in it?” Frank replied:

Eyy, Peggy! You know, it’s funny talking about it these days because I couldn’t really tell anybody anything for a couple of years. Couldn’t tell anyone at the label, obviously. But I also couldn’t talk with anyone at Apple because the industry is too small and it would’ve gotten back to the label for sure. So I kept it to myself and a few in my circle. I carried my hard drives around with me when I travelled because I used to not store anything online. Those drives became a physical representation of the stakes. If the files had leaked, everything would have worked out very differently for me. When August came around and both projects were uploaded I felt the euphoria, yeah, but mostly I just needed to sleep. I probably slept something like 15 hours. To answer your second question, I built a 12-foot staircase with my fucking bare hands some days before! It’s in my storage, you want it??

Arca asked Frank, “Are there any similarities or differences between Frank and Christopher?” (Frank’s real name is Christopher Breaux.) Frank responded: “Christopher is a triangle wave. Frank is a pulse wave. I’m a little synthesizer. Xo.”

Elsewhere, he told John Waters that he wishes he wrote Ryuichi Sakamoto’s title song from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, answered a question from Rosalía about whether he feels that he “belong[s] to this world and time,” fielded a question from Evian Christ about his favorite dinosaur, shrugged off Matt Ox’s question about his pre-studio routines, told designer Ava Nirui about his penchant for Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and detailed to actress Amandla Stenberg why he takes a cold shower every morning.

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