I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
SHAKIRAEducation is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
More Shakira Quotes
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I remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.
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I’ve written many love songs for Gerard. But it’s never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.
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Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.
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Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
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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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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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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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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 feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn’t just let someone else do it.
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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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What I do is I remove my makeup every night, use a little bit of Vitamin C serum, and that’s it, pretty much. Of course, I use my 3D White products!
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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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I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
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I would sing anywhere they would invite me. That’s how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.
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