Rita Ora
26 quotes
Biography
"None of us want anything good to go, and that’s another reason why I work really hard."
"I can’t tell you the rules, but I can tell you, in my opinion, that if you are your best self, then the best will come to you."
"Of course I suffer from insecurities, like everyone else,” she adds. “But they drive me to do more."
"I’ve never drawn within the lines. I’d like to think all the mistakes I’ve made, and all the decisions I’ve made, I own up to. I don’t run away from them."
"I wanted to tell a story of finding love, but it went deeper than that, because to find love, you have to find who you are, what makes you happy."
"My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple."
"I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde."
"I love the idea of being part of a campaign that captures the spirit of New York and the stories of women here, passionate about their dreams."
"Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with."
"Gwen Stefani's style and flow I just love. She is so cool to me!"
"I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless."
"I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't."
"Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd's not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room."
"Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around with tweezers plucking my girlfriends' eyebrows. I was really good; eyebrow tweezing runs in my family - my mother used to do mine, and I picked it up."
"I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes."
"I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad."
"It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce."
"My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career."
"I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie."
"My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub."
"I've been going to Bicester Village since I was young. My mum and dad really loved that place, and I always used to stock up on clothes. I love the fact that it supports great British designers."
"The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience."
"Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch."
"I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like pulsing. It turns your legs into, like, jelly, and you feel like a Bambi; you lose so much control over your body because you're pulsing so much."
"I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art."