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I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.
I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.
Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.
I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.
If you watch my Instagram and the quotes I wrote, everything is personal and it's all coming from me.
I think I'm better at songwriting now, and it does come easier. I have faith in my initial instincts.
I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!
I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.
To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing
I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.
My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident.
I am sure as I grow older I will understand more about my own feelings and how to put them in a song.
It is so surreal to come into a shop and see pictures of myself everywhere and hear my album playing.
I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it's a tree or a coffee cup. I can't resist.
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.
I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.
I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.
Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.
I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.
I think meditation is good for the self. Having that moment with yourself and your mind is essential.
Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.
I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.
You have to put your body on the line from time to time in order to make a statement or change a law.
You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
I'm not some cute guy who is trying to be successful off that. I really want the music to come first.
I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.
I don't try to be candy coated. I don't try to walk on eggshells. I am what I am. Love me or hate me.
Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.
We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.
So God made girls... God made girls... He stood back and told the boys, I'm 'bout to rock your world.
The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.
When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.
I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.
Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.
'Roc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more.
I never think too hard about a look. When you consider an outfit too much, that's when it goes wrong.
It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.
Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.
I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.
I am very attracted to funny people - I'd go so far as to say I find it hard to trust unfunny people.
I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.
And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.