Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.
Rita Ora
I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.
For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody.
You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.
I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.
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'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.
I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.
The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.
It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.
I will always love red lips.
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.
'Roc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more.
I try to do one thing a day that makes me proud of myself.
I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.
When your time comes, you need to grab it with both hands.
One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.
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.
Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.
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.
One day I will settle down, when I have achieved everything I wanted.
I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.
When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.
I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.
I don't ever use dancers, and when I do, it's literally, like, four break dancers.
I mix my fragrances with body oils - I love body oils, so that's my little trick.
I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with my sound and let them see the real Rita.
I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.
My beauty icons - and this sounds cheesy - have a beauty that comes from inside.
Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd's not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room.
I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.
Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know.
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 always remember smelling Chanel No. 5 at home - my mum used to literally pour it, and she rocked it.
Music expresses - you express yourself with music.
Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.
Anytime I go on Twitter, there's always the good but the bad as well.
Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.
I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It's an incredible achievement. I couldn't do it.
I just want to be in a relationship.
I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.
I've always been into looking different.
I love masculine cuts with suits and chunky jewellery. My hair is so glam, it balances it out, and it's comfy!
The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.
To save your own hair, wigs are literally the way forward.
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.'
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.
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?
I don't feel like myself without the red lip. I feel like I'm taking a risk or something without it.
