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"I have loved much, but I have never loved with a capital L." "I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with. ¿Will it be possible?" "The ideal man has to be someone who I can look in the eye, that has very little to hide, with strong hands, that build, with the heart of a child once in a while, and with many words full of poetry when I need them." "I prefer a noble heart and a sterile intelligence." ABOUT HERSELF "For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived." "I don't want my image to be analyzed from behind a desk of someone with some college degree." "The people who want to know who Shakir is only have to listen to "Donde Estan Los Ladrones?", that's where my confessions are." "I don't like to listen or see myself on television. When I do it, I feel uglier, more foolish." "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." "Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself." "For me, popularity is not an impediment at all, it doesn't keep me from doing anything. I wanted to be famous and be "When I write I do it just so I don't go crazy, it's like going to the psychiatrist but free, because doctors are very expensive." "I'm open to experience, but if I see that one of them takes me away from my goal, I discard it." "They always ask me what is my objective, but I don't want to share it, because it can be misunderstood." "I can be very physical and very spiritual, and very stupid about some things. I have many different shades of gray." "Generally I don't remember the bad things because I heal quickly." ABOUT THE OTHERS "I love my parents more than music, more than my own voice." "My father is idealism and my mother is realism; that way, in my home I find land and also enough oxygen. My father is craziness and my mother is common sense, I need them both." "My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you." "The people that are around me don't watch over me as an artist but me as a human being." "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." ABOUT MUSIC "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. I have many writings that I would not like it if they were published." "Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover." "The secret to writing a song for someone is precisely that the person never realizes that the song is for him." "Inspiration is a phenomenon that I still don't know how it happens, it simply comes to me. Because of that when a song is born, its creation is a miracle." "When one writes he or she only thinks about what s/he wants to say. One can't think about the copies that s/he wants to sell in the music store or about the public to which it is directed. Just write." ABOUT FAME 2Fame is a question of temperature: it's cold when it deifies and separates one out, and hot when it gets up close and humanizes. I have used it to get close to my public, not to distance myself." "It's important to have people around you that deflate your ego, which gets fat really quickly." "Fame has given me among other things the recognition of people that doubted me." Translated by Vanessa Arnold from Shakira Translations |
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