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.

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.

When you're supported by people, you always imagine it's people your age who will support you.

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.

It's still a compliment when you're backed by younger and older, but it's actually unexpected. It's surprising, but for me it's in fact the most beautiful compliment.

Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking...,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.

At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.

When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling.

Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.

We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service.