Quotes by 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.”

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

“I dont go out without make up. Im a woman, you know”

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

“Youre a song written by the hands of God”

“Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself”

“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”

“Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover”

“Im Colombian and nothing will change that.”

“It doesnt bother me to talk about my private life, it doesnt bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent”

“Because of you, Im running out of reasons to cry.”

“But you own the place, Where all my thoughts go hiding, And right under your clothes, Is where I find them.”

“I wish there was a chance for you and me, I wish you couldnt find a place to be, Away from here.”

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they dont respect you and when they respect you they dont love you.

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. Thats my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. Thats my fatal, absurd nature.

I thank God that Im a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. Im grateful that I know where I come from.

Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although Im definitely the disciplinarian.

Relationships have to have a give and take if theyre going to work in the long term.

I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didnt 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 its paid off.