83 Quotes by Stromae

Everyone knows how to make a baby, but no one knows how to make a papa.

I prefer consider Stromae as a collective project. Stromae is not me. Or at least it is not only me.

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

Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it. But my African roots brought me this music. In every African family, parties in Brussels, we used to listen to this kind of music. And salsa music as well.

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 do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.

I have four or five custom suits, including one that's velvet, and a gray one I wear onstage. It's wool.

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.

Hip-hop, pop, dance - the common point is melancholy. That's international, and I like this word because it's not only about sadness or happiness - it's both at the same time. And that's human, and that's life.