Quotes by Rita Ora

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 thats what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you arent familiar with.

Gwen Stefanis style and flow I just love. She is so cool to me!

Id love to be the female Kanye. I think hes so cool and effortless.

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldnt.

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

Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowds not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room.

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 youre pulsing so much.

I wouldnt want to do an average fashion line. Id want it to be an amazing piece of art.

If Im not working and getting my makeup done, thats my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

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.

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

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

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

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 dads 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.