1. “I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.” – Shakira
2. “It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.” – Shakira
3. “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.” – Shakira
4. “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.” – Shakira
5. “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” – Shakira
6. “I’m more afraid of marriage than death.” – Shakira
7. “We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence…” – Shakira
8. “Nationalism is cured by traveling.” – Shakira
9. “There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.” – Shakira
10. “I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.” – Shakira
11. “A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.” – Shakira
12. “I thank God that I’m a product of my parents, that they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.” – Shakira
13. “The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.” – Shakira
14. “I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.” – Shakira
15. “I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.” – Shakira
16. “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
17. “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
18. “I’m like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don’t sweat.” – Shakira
19. “My hips don’t lie and I don’t lie either!” – Shakira
20. “Our leaders are lacking love, and love is lacking leaders.” – Shakira
21. “You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.” – Shakira
22. “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.” – Shakira
23. “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
24. “Scars remind me of just how far that I’ve come.” – Shakira
25. “For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.” – Shakira
26. “I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.” – Shakira
27. “I know what it’s like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.” – Shakira
28. “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
29. “Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.” – Shakira
30. “Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.” – Shakira
31. “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.” – Shakira
32. “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
33. “I apply the same amount of dedication to being a mom as I do to my music.” – Shakira
34. “I can be like a lioness when defending my people.” – Shakira
35. “I live for freedom, and freedom is a lie.” – Shakira
36. “Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.” – Shakira
37. “My man prefers meat over the bone.” – Shakira
38. “You’re a song written by the hands of God.” – Shakira
39. “Relationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.” – Shakira
40. “I’m not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.” – Shakira
41. “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.” – Shakira
42. “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
43. “There’s no better makeup than self-confidence.” – Shakira
44. “If you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.” – Shakira
45. “In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.” – Shakira
46. “People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.” – Shakira
47. “I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.” – Shakira
48. “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.” – Shakira
49. “If I could, I’d live in the nude, like Eve in paradise.” – Shakira
50. “Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.” – Shakira
51. “Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs.” – Shakira
52. “In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.” – Shakira
53. “You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.” – Shakira
54. “My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.” – Shakira
55. “I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.” – Shakira
56. “Live your life to the fullest.” – Shakira
57. “Walking gets too boring, when you learn how to fly.” – Shakira
58. “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. It is as cut-and dried as that. It doesn’t matter if you are a woman or not; in this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.” – Shakira
59. “I’m like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don’t sweat.” – Shakira