Keep painting your demons.
I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.
I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.
I prefer consider Stromae as a collective project. Stromae is not me. Or at least it is not only me.
I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.
It's not the subject that's cliché; it's cliché or not. But in fact, this is the way you're talking about it.
When you're supported by people, you always imagine it's people your age who will support you.
The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.
Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the heroes of capitalism - you know that's not rebellion. That's not "the street" - that's Wall Street.
Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.
I personally really love food. But I even annoy myself when I say something like "Oh, I like burgers," because I sound like one of those girls. The ones who say, "I love pizza!" Bullsh*t. You don't love pizza, you love a bite of pizza