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.

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.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters.

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

People love to make excuses, forget all the excuses, if it doesn't work out, failure is the best thing that can happen to somebody, people are extremely scared of failure.

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.

I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.