I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
SHAKIRAI did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
SHAKIRAI feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I’m different.
SHAKIRAI consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
SHAKIRAI feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.
SHAKIRARelationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.
SHAKIRAI didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
SHAKIRAI’ve shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest’s.
SHAKIRABeing raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
SHAKIRAI’d love to go to that World Cup – I’m not sure in what capacity, but I’ll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.
SHAKIRAA man’s car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
SHAKIRAAll through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn’t have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.
SHAKIRAI feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
SHAKIRAI will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain’s face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn’t see his face.
SHAKIRAI wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
SHAKIRABecause of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.
SHAKIRAVideos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.
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