I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
SHAKIRAI remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.
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I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
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I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I’m not capable, I’m too cowardly for that.
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I remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.
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I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.
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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.
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I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
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Videos 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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I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
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I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries.
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When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
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The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.
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Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
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Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.
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