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.
SHAKIRAAt the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.
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Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?
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At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.
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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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I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.
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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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The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.
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And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
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I am an avid believer that education – and especially early childhood development – is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
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Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
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I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
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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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