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

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

I know what I'm doing even when I'm wearing a pencil skirt.

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

I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

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.

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

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.

Freddy Demann (Shakira's Manager) is a man that knows the world of music. And I know that I am in good hands.

Sexy is good as long as it's not the main recipe. It's an ingredient. I would not appear in a leotard in a video if I [did] not have other dimensions.

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

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

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

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

I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.

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

I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

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

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.

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

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

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

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

If I could, I'd live in the nude, like Eve in paradise.

People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.

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

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

My man prefers meat over the bone.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm barefoot whenever I can be.

My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.

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

I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I'm fine that way. I don't need to be faithful to any concept, you know.

We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.

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

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.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.

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

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence ...

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 live for freedom, and freedom is a lie.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

I always knew I was going to be a public figure. There was no doubt.

I'm just a consequence of the great musical momentum and the great changes we are going through in the world.

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

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

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.

I just don't find marriage a necessary step in a couple's life.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

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.

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'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

I'm a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.

You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

Life is a soccer field, don't you think?

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

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.

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

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

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

You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.

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

I've shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest's.

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.

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

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

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

When you feel complete, you don't need to get married, and you don't think about it.

I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.

I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.

I've written many love songs for Gerard. But it's never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

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.

Our leaders are lacking love, and love is lacking leaders.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Nationalism is cured by traveling.

Walking gets too boring when you learn how to fly.

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

I can be like a lioness when defending my people.

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

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

What I do is I remove my makeup every night, use a little bit of Vitamin C serum, and that's it, pretty much. Of course, I use my 3D White products!