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I'm a bit crazy, yes.
Music is like a medicine.
I was a big fan of G. Dep!
It's my job to be ridiculous.
Being famous is a bit dangerous sometimes.
I'm a composer like every maestro on this earth.
I'm not making music for old people or young people.
Who decided that when you dance you don't have to think?
You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.
Success is a gift, but it's a handicap at the same time, I think.
I already visited Rwanda when I was five, but I don't really remember my roots.
I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time.
I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.
People like Brel were sensitive and vulnerable; on stage, they dared to take risks.
That's what's interesting: When you release an album, everyone hears it their own way.
It's a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. That is plain and simple.
It's good to think about real life, no? Because real life isn't just dreams and happiness.
I'm not making music for intelligent people or dumb people. I'm just making music for people.
When you're supported by people, you always imagine it's people your age who will support you.
If I was just trying to imitate an American or English singer, it would sound fake. I'm sure of it.
I prefer consider Stromae as a collective project. Stromae is not me. Or at least it is not only me.
I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.
Being honest and spontaneous is important when making music. But I'm also really logical when I compose.
I have four or five custom suits, including one that's velvet, and a gray one I wear onstage. It's wool.
I was raised in Brussels as a Belgian but, at the same time, feeling that I wasn't necessarily from here.
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.
I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.
No genre of music is better than another, whether it's country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It's all music.
The prime minister in Belgium gave our album to Barack Obama. I was really surprised that he decided to give a CD of us.
Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can't talk about everything easily.
Maybe I just look at things as a humanist: I like looking at people in a realistic way more than looking at them in a positive way.
I'm sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.
Music is more than words. It's a visual experience, too, and people really feel my music because of the way I move and put on a show.
I'm trying to focus on my job. I don't think that being famous is a job. My job is composing, singing, performing, but not being a star.
Our ambition isn't just to be big, it's to be listened to and supported by people. And to have the success - if we deserve it, of course.
The first time I performed on stage, that was almost the first concert I went to, so that was pretty interesting and a bit weird at the same time.
I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.
I get the feeling that my songs aren't that dark. There is a cynicism but humour also - it's not depression upon depression upon depression. It's a blend.
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.
We are proud of our ridiculousness. That's what made our Surrealism. Proud and ashamed of everything at the same time. I think that's my definition of Belgium.
When I'm on stage, that's a job. It's acting, it's faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes - I'm pretty good in this - dancing, just to entertain.
I prefer to talk about our problems, to be proud of them, in place of trying to hide them. Because you can't. And I prefer to dance, to smile on it, to laugh on it.
I was talking in an interview about how I would love to have a ballerina flat for men. Repetto heard about it and decided to create one. It's almost like a slipper.
I have crazy, different influences in my songs. I want rap music, I want Congolese rumba, I want salsa, I want dance music, I want hip-hop music, all mixed into one!
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.
I always need a reason to do something on stage, for me. I am not judging anyone: there is not a good way; there is not a bad way. You just have to justify everything.
Who do you want to be: the radical man who can make a choice in one second, or the man who never takes decisions? That's the question: who's the best? Actually, there is no best.
I think a lot of people want to blame their fathers for not being good enough when they were growing up. I think it can be an excuse for not coming to terms with your own problems.
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.
The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that's really Belgian. I think I'm really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That's my problem, actually.