My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
SHAKIRAI’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!
More Shakira Quotes
-
-
You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
SHAKIRA -
I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend’s children, but I don’t think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don’t have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.
SHAKIRA -
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.
SHAKIRA -
I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
SHAKIRA -
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.
SHAKIRA -
I remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.
SHAKIRA -
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.
SHAKIRA -
I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
SHAKIRA -
I just think that it’s very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.
SHAKIRA -
It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.
SHAKIRA -
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
SHAKIRA -
Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I’ve got followers there who I’ve been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele.
SHAKIRA -
All 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.
SHAKIRA -
I was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!
SHAKIRA -
From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we’re just born.
SHAKIRA