Top 95 Rita Ora Quotes

Chanel is my ultimate weakness.

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

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.

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.

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

I am committed to glamour.

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

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

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.

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

People always ask me: ‘Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?’

I have 20 wigs at home that I play with.

Being a Mum is a big job.

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

The music industry is very small.

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

American Apparel does great colourful basics that you can customise.

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

It took me a while to understand that I do have a voice, and I can use it to help people.

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

There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn’t feel comfortable at all.

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

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn’t.

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

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

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.

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’m like a dude. Jordans are my favorite. I wear them all the time for shows. I can get girly-girly when I want to, but I can’t perform in heels. I would bust my face open on stage, and we don’t want that.

I get so nervous, I get belly pains before I go on stage.

‘Glamour’s always special to me; they gave me one of my first U.K. covers, and I was so excited when I found out I got a cover for it, so, I always, always have a special place in my heart for ‘Glamour.’

Gwen Stefani’s style and flow I just love. She is so cool to me!

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

I’d love to be the female Kanye. I think he’s so cool and effortless.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Without my music, no doors would have opened, so I am forever grateful, and I am always going to be singing. But yeah, when the other doors open, why not walk through?

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.

The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It’s not attractive.

Twitter… can ruin your life.

People like Prince don’t have to care about anything, but they care because they want music for the future to be great.

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.

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

It was my dad’s idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.

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

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

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

You have to come to terms with loving your body.

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

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!

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.

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.

It’s a terrible feeling being lonely.

I always remember smelling Chanel No. 5 at home – my mum used to literally pour it, and she rocked it.

I’m the weirdest person.

I feel like I’m a character already, as in, like, I love dressing up.

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

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

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

You have to take care of your body.

I don’t ever use dancers, and when I do, it’s literally, like, four break dancers.

Unfortunately, being a brand is really important nowadays.

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

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

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

I was completely shocked that Prince would even know my name.

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

I don’t get jealous – I get suspicious.

I admire Rihanna.

I just want to be in a relationship.

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.

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.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

Social media is so influential now.

The public’s not stupid.

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

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

Anytime I go on Twitter, there’s always the good but the bad as well.

I’m very spontaneous. I go with my gut.

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

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

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn’t hear myself.

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

I mix my fragrances with body oils – I love body oils, so that’s my little trick.

Nothing comfortable is worth wearing to the Met Ball.

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.

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

Music expresses – you express yourself with music.

I love my pop music.