Rita Ora quotes:

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

I'm a massive fragrance fan - I think fragrance is part of someone's hygiene, and I'm a big believer in leaving an impression through scent.

I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.

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.

It was so much fun working with Rimmel. We're inspired by many of the same things: fashion, color, sounds, style, life in general, and London in particular.

You know what a wifey means? It's like your other half. Like when you get married, like, that's your wife!

Twitter... can ruin your life.

I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It's an incredible achievement. I couldn't do it.

Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

I love how you can look different, and it changes your mood.

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.

I don't know how 'X Factor' works. I was only there as a guest judge for a day. But I watched 'The Voice' a lot; I respected how it came across on TV, and I love the freedom we get as coaches to do what we want.

I think the good thing about Macklemore is that he is very precise about what he gets involved in. As you can tell, he's very passionate about what he puts his name on, because he talks about things people don't usually talk about, and his concepts are very, very passionate.

I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right.

For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody.

To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?

One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.

I used to wait in line for Jordans. That's how much of a freak I was.

My beauty icons - and this sounds cheesy - have a beauty that comes from inside.

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.

I love how music and fashion are so similar. We need each other.

If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

When I was younger, I did my first audition at 'Eurovision.' I was about 17. After my first audition, I blacked out; I was just like, 'I can't do this.' I'm not knocking it or anything - it's been around for years. I'm just very, very happy I made that decision myself. I think that's one of the best decisions I've ever made.

I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.

You have to come to terms with loving your body.

I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

I think it's a big deal to have a great soundtrack for a movie.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

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.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad.

Unfortunately, being a brand is really important nowadays.

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

When you're involved with someone for a while, and they decided to express their feelings to the public - that's not my personal way of therapy, but I guess everyone takes split-ups differently.

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know.

I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.

When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.

I've always been into looking different.

I love masculine cuts with suits and chunky jewellery. My hair is so glam, it balances it out, and it's comfy!

Every girl, without fail, loves to look at a sexy picture of herself.

Women love an honest man.

I mix my fragrances with body oils - I love body oils, so that's my little trick.

Chanel is my ultimate weakness.

I don't feel like myself without the red lip. I feel like I'm taking a risk or something without it.

I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

To save your own hair, wigs are literally the way forward.

Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn't afraid to say, 'Men get hurt too.' And a lot of men don't admit that.

When your time comes, you need to grab it with both hands.

Everything evolves naturally in life. It's not limited to beauty or music. The more experience you get, the more you find out about yourself. Everything becomes more and more an expression of the real you. I can play different characters. Sometimes I feel tomboy or glam or playful. When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

The first album I bought was the Spice Girls, ha ha.

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 just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

American Apparel does great colourful basics that you can customise.

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

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 think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

I walked into this industry blond with red lips, and I will leave this industry blond with red lips. Mark my words.

If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.

A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour taking in that steam, and it saves my life!

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at Roc Nation asking me what I was up to. He asked if I'd been to America, and I said, 'No.' Then he said, 'I'm putting you on a flight to New York tomorrow.'

I don't really have that many judgements on things, or crazy statements that I feel like I have to put across.

I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.

I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with my sound and let them see the real Rita.

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.

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.

I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting. That is not what it is.

I speak fluent Kosovan.

To me, it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from - if you're a good person and you got my back, I got yours.

Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.

Jessie J is a great, great girl. I'm a friend and have always been a fan of hers. I'm happy to see her doing her thing.

Roc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more.

I'm too busy for relationships.

It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

If you really want something, you'll make it work.

I love the Scottish accent; it is very sexy.

Listen, sharing my life with people is just part of my daily routine.

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

The music industry is very small.

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

One day I will settle down, when I have achieved everything I wanted.

Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at.

I don't vocalise things that don't deserve attention.

What I'll remember about New York is growing up really fast.

I try to do one thing a day that makes me proud of myself.

I love getting dressed up and glamorous for the red carpet. It makes me feel powerful and sexy!

I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

Everyone thinks their mom is a superhero, and l feel like I want to be just like my mom. A superhero. She's a very strong lady.

I am committed to glamour.

I don't think I could do a reality show, no.

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

I love nature, so I'd love to go out and just look at things and not care what I look like.

I love sharing my life with my followers. Hopefully, they are following me because they genuinely want to know me. It's a way to connect with fans that wasn't available just a few years ago.

I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that.

I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.

I'd like to be the Princess. But I want a nice black crown, not a pink crown because I hate pink. I wanna be the naughty Princess from Roc Nation.

I'd love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.

I'd love to go on a safari - [I've] never been on a safari.

I'd love to sponsor a dolphin.

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.

The public's not stupid.