Rita Ora Quotations

I never think too hard about a look. When you consider an outfit too much, that's when it goes wrong.

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

I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

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.

You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have had young fascinations but never love.

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

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

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.

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

There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

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

Nothing comfortable is worth wearing to the Met Ball.

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

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

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

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

I'm a real goof-ball deep down. It's always been my thing to make people like me.

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

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.

I have 20 wigs at home that I play with.

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

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

I don't want people to think that someone gives me something to wear, and I'll put it on.

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

'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.'

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

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

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

When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.

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

Kerastase and Bed Head have really good products.

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

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 was completely shocked that Prince would even know my name.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

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

My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work.

You can be forgotten very quickly. So I am aware that I need to stay current, keep connecting, and keep bringing things to the table... Otherwise, you can just disappear.

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.

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

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.

When people come to my shows, they're like, 'I can't believe you can actually freaking sing!'

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.

You have to come to terms with loving your body.

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

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?

Unfortunately, being a brand is really important nowadays.

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?

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.

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

Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.

Beyonce is this massive star, but she's incredibly humble. But it's weird because even though I love her, she's my boss's wife.

Everyone wants a love song you can dance to.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.

Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.

Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.

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

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

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

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

American Apparel does great colourful basics that you can customise.

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

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.