Rita Ora Quotes

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.

Nas is an artist who writes from his heart.

You do your best to tell your own story, in the most specific way, and then you hope that that travels well, when it's done with heart and honesty.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

Everyone looks to an artist for something more than just the music, and that message of being comfortable in my own skin is number one for me.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

I'm starting to find my own style.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen, you gotta put something of yourself in it.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.