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'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 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.

Ask not what your country can do for you

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end. Sometimes magic doesn't listen after all.

I'm someone who's always on the go and crazy busy, so I like to keep snacks in my car and at the office, and Cracker Jack'd is a really yummy snack that I love. I definitely am a big snacker.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room

A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond.

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife. From my personal point of view, get an ugly girl to marry you.

American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.

To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.

All great novels are great fairy tales.