Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Jacques Brel" in English language version.
Brel himself asserts that he is an atheist: 'Je ne crois pas en Dieu et je n'y croirai jamais', and he describes such a belief as a 'fetish', 'plus un besoin qu'une réalité'." For him, all ideologies are a 'manière élégante de tricher'.