I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
SHAKIRAThe worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you’re always giving interviews.
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I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
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Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
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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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It’s very difficult to think that you’re with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don’t know them: it turns out that they betray you. It’s painful, but it’s best to turn the page.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.
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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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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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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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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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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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When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.
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For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you’re not a small, you’re not a large.
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Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
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I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.
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