“If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.”
Rita Ora“It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.”
Rita Ora“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.”
Rita Ora“My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.”
Rita Ora“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.”
Rita Ora“I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.”
Rita Ora“I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad.”
Rita Ora“I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.”
Rita Ora“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.”
Rita Ora“If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.”
Rita Ora“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.”
Rita Ora