Rita Ora

You can tell an honest artist from one who’s just given all their songs.

I’m often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

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

I have had young fascinations but never love.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

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

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their lives. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

You can’t fake listening. It shows.

All the boys did real good for their first time out. You couldn’t ask for any better. We’ve got a few bugs to work out, but that’s what this was for. We’re going to keep practicing and get better.

I don’t really like to go out very much. I’m not scandalous. I’m not, like, in this to be famous. I also find it so embarrassing when you read about people and it’s like they were so trashed at Skybar and stumbling around. I don’t want to be that person. That’s just so embarrassing to have that written about you.

I do worry – a lot.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don’t know what it is.

When I’m no longer rapping I want to open up an ice-cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn’t know how to cry. Simple.

I couldn`t stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch – understand?

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

[On roles resembling the title character in ‘Penelope’] I like this girl because she is a bit of a bad-ass. I grew up watching movies with people like Barbara Stanwyck, and sometimes I get frustrated that there aren’t a lot of great female characters out there that young women can look at and go, ‘I want to be like that’. I go to movies and yell at the women on-screen, ‘Shoot him; just shoot him.’ I mean, why why does the guy always have to shoot him?

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

I find Hollywood really toxic.

I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I’m the only person who can’t understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they’re not that great. These are questions everyone has.