Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn’t just let someone else do it.
SHAKIRAI was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
More Shakira Quotes
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When you feel complete, you don’t need to get married, and you don’t think about it.
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My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We’re very alike; it’s not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it’s just that he was born 10 years later… he’s a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.
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I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
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I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
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I’m a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are – there’s no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don’t see!
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We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
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I didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
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Gerard doesn’t tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do. We have a beautiful relationship and one of mutual trust.
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You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
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You’re a song written by the hands of God.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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