Shakira Quotes

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods.

The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.

People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason, I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I'm different.

With pregnancy and nursing, the hormones mean your skin tends to be more sensitive to the light, so it's very important to use sun block every day.

The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates.

I think that we see war as a virtual thing and we even get to believe that bombs fall on top of cardboard cutouts and stuff like that. They don't. They kill real people, real children, real mothers and millions of innocent people.

I didn't expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.

I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.

Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.

For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.

If I can contribute to people having fun, I would feel very fulfilled as an artist.

I would love to have eight or nine kids with Gerard - my own futbol team.

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.

They just want to continue playing their little game of power. And I feel that us people have the responsibility and also the obligation to demand to our leaders to give us the pacifist solutions. To give us a world in peace.

I can't wait for the time when curves and a little belly fat will be sexy again!

My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

The 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.

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.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

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. 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.

Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs

A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.

I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.

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.

I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.

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.

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.

I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.

Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.

I apply the same amount of dedication to being a mom as I do to my music.

I'm barefoot whenever I can be.

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.

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.

We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents.

Seeing me in love is a constant state: there are no questions, as the answer is simply there.

I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.

I can be like a lioness when defending my people.

I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.

I'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!

I have gone through a lot of things, everything that you can imagine in life, but the best has been Gerard and Milan.

Always I was dreaming of a record contract. From 10 to 13, it was all I could think of. I worked hard for this dream. Nobody could say I didn't try.

I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

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.

I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS

People think I like to expose my body. But I don't. It's just because the dance moves require it.

I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me.

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.

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.

I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

A man's car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.

In their 20s, women try to be somebody they're not and try to turn themselves into something different. Now I'm in my 30s; I'm very happy with who I am.

There's no better makeup than self-confidence.

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I've gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.

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.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

I have two kids, a career, and a man that takes a lot of my attention and time.

'Elixir' means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.

I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

I'm quite proud of my rear ... I don't obsess over my flaws, because I see my body as a whole. Besides, I think men appreciate confidence more than perfection.

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.

My man prefers meat over the bone.

I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.

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.

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.

My hips don't lie and I don't lie either!

I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.

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.

You're a song written by the hands of God.

My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.

In the full light of day, I don't want to think about the sunset.

The relationship I have with my Hispanic fans is very deep and intricate.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

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.

The music teacher thought I sang like a goat. It was kind of devastating. A few months after that, I participated in a music contest and won. I took my little trophy to school and rubbed it in his nose. I said to him, "What do you say now?"

I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.

I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.

I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.

I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.

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.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

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.