At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.
SHAKIRASensual 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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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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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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My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.
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A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.
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I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
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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.
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I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy.
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I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It’s an adventure, a dream…
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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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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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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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A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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I’d love to go to that World Cup – I’m not sure in what capacity, but I’ll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.
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I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
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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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