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Shakira: Because of you, I'm running out
of reasons to cry.
Shakira: Everyone
can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal
myself.
Shakira: For
several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I
have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.
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 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.
Shakira: I always
believed that women have rights and that there are some women that
are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others
that are stupid enough not to.
Shakira: 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.
Shakira: I don't
go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.
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: I want
some day to be able to love with the same intensity and
unselfishness that parents love their children with.
Shakira: For
several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I
have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.
Shakira: I was
unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any
clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged
wage and labor violations.
Shakira: I'm
Colombian and nothing will change that.
Shakira: In this
life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
Shakira: 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.
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: My songs
are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But
I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before
the masses and they have to take care with their words.
Shakira: 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.
Shakira: Writing
in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to
write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in
Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.
Shakira: Writing
songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins
the heart of the lover.
Shakira: You're a
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