Rita Ora

I have had young fascinations but never love.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

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

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

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

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

I never thought that I would have a career in show business…

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

There’s no point regretting things. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. Life’s too short to worry about things I’ve said.

All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

If we don’t get actively involved to at least mitigate Trump’s damage, things will not be OK. And yes, the sun will rise each day, but the continuing rotation of the earth should not be your baseline expectation of American society.

It really bothers me when people don’t use coasters. Particularly on my table.

My favourite part [of Pulp Fiction] is when Sam has his gun out in the diner and he tells the guy to tell his girlfriend to shut up. ‘Tell that bitch to be cool. Say: Bitch be cool.’ I love those lines.

Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like ‘Saturday Night Live’ forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.

I love the intellectual type. They know everything and suspect nothing.

I couldn’t have asked for a better target than Trump

The death penalty is like the McRib. When you can’t have it, it seems so tantalizing. But when they bring it back, you think, ‘Wow, this is ethically wrong’.

We slept together and, believe me, I know the best and worst of David Geffen.

Twelve was a real turning point for me as I moved to a mixed school, and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.

Maybe my fairytale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that’s OK.