In Belgium, we know the U.S. culture through the television, but it's not the truth. It's interesting to see that Philadelphia is really industrial. I love industrial cities. Everybody hates them, but I think they're the best places to be creative. The more gritty it is, the more I love it.

Stromae

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I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.

old-people want people

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.

mother writing thinking

I prefer consider Stromae as a collective project. Stromae is not... by Stromae

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

collectives projects

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.

growing-up simple thinking

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.

talking facts way

When you're supported by people, you always imagine it's people y... by Stromae

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

support-you age people

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.

party kind roots

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.

unexpected beautiful facts

I'm sure that a U.S. citizen, if I try to sing in English, he can feel that I'm not really sincere, there is something wrong. And I'm sure that even in French, they could feel the sincerity more than in English.

sincerity citizens trying

Music is like a medicine. by Stromae

Music is like a medicine.

like medicine music

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.

laugh you smile dance

I'm trying to stay normal, that's all. But it's hard. by Stromae

I'm trying to stay normal, that's all. But it's hard.

stay hard normal trying

It's a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. Th... by Stromae

It's a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. That is plain and simple.

cultures fact other simple

I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want... by Stromae

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

things real easy want

I prefer the word 'musician.' I'm a musician and a composer. I have a problem with the word 'artist.' I don't know if it's the same in English, but words like 'artist' and 'star' put people on a pedestal, which is not really good for my brain.

words good brain people

There is always a good part in everything. by Stromae

There is always a good part in everything.

everything part good always

When I listen to an American singer, I wanna listen to his music in his language, because he's more spontaneous - he's more natural - and I need his point of view. And our point of view here in Brussels is French and Flemish.

need view music language

I don't want to have success to have success. by Stromae

I don't want to have success to have success.

want success

I think it's good to eat a bit of everything, but when you eat too much junk food, it's bad for you and for your brain. You don't understand why, but you feel sad. It's because of the junk food!

good you sad food

Who decided that when you dance you don't have to think? by Stromae

Who decided that when you dance you don't have to think?

who think you dance