Rita Ora

When it comes down to the music, it’s just you and the microphone. It’s not you and the record execs.

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

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

I have had young fascinations but never love.

I’m not going to have a baby until I’m around 30-something.

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good.

I don’t take myself that seriously. I’ve just had a good, big life. It’s a big one.

The celebrity thing… I don’t want to sound as if I absolutely don’t want it because that’s not true. If you’re in the entertainment business, you have to be honest. There’s something alluring about it…

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you’re singing it from someone else’s angle. But it’s always from me. It’s just a new way of framing it.

There is no diet for a big ego.

Sick of all these people talking, sick of all this noise. Tired of all these cameras flashing, sick of being poised.

When choosing sexual partners, remember: talent is not sexually transmittable.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Everyone wants to be black so bad I wake up feeling so exclusive!

I’ve only met Brad Pitt once before. Well, I didn’t really meet him. I kind of just stood behind him and smelled his hair. It smelled really good.

[on Sarah Palin returning to Fox News] First tonight, I and the rest of America woke up this morning in the worst way imaginable.

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

[on Mae West] I do think she was a spectacular talent. There’s no question she was a comedic genius, but I did, in person, actually feel like she was some kind of a dockworker in drag.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with. Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like. That you love cocaine and that you spend every night in orgies with models. If only it were true.