I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
Adele
I have insecurities of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.
Adele
There will be no new music until it’s good enough and until I’m ready.
Adele
I think it’s shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don’t want my name anywhere near another brand.
Adele
I just want to make music, I don’t want people to talk about me. All I’ve ever wanted to do was sing. I don’t want to be a celebrity. I don’t want to be in people’s faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven’t even known I’m on.
Adele
I’m really happy to be me, and I’d like to think people like me more because I’m happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.
Adele
I’m a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
Adele
I love a bit of drama. That’s a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.
Adele
My life is full of drama, and I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
Adele
I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don’t find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I’ve never had a problem with the way I look. I’d rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
Adele
It’s never been an issue for me – I don’t want to go on a diet, I don’t want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain’t got time for this, just be happy and don’t be stupid. If I’ve got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I’m not worried.
Adele
I like having my hair and face done, but I’m not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
Adele
I don’t write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
Adele
People think that I popped out of my mother’s womb singing ‘Chasing Pavements’.
Adele
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it’s sparse. There’s nothing that’s pretentious or planned. It’s just so gutsy.
Adele
I’ve never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I’m very proud of that.
Adele
I can’t dance to save my life.
Adele
My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
Adele
I doubt I’ll be singing forever, because at some point people aren’t going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I’ll still get the opportunity to write songs.
Adele
Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it’s a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don’t know why.
Adele
I get so nervous on stage I can’t help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it’s pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I’m going to be able to deliver.
Adele
I love hearing my audience breathe.
Adele
Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.
Adele
You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.
Adele
The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I’ve always been a size 14 to 16, I don’t care about clothes, I’d rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
Adele
Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn’t mean to but I just did.
Adele
I don’t like going to the gym.
Adele
I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.
Adele
My worst fear is my music won’t connect with the public.
Adele
People are starting to go on about my weight but I’m not going to change my size because they don’t like the way I look.
Adele
I’ve got some news… I’m delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we’re over the moon.
Adele
I’ve always written down how I feel.
Adele
I’m very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight.
Adele
It has gotten worse as I’m becoming more successful. My nerves. Just because there’s a bit more pressure, and people are expecting a lot more from me.
Adele
I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I’m done with being a bitter witch.
Adele
If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don’t know how I’d feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.
Adele
Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn’t support me, so I am living her dream, it’s sweeter for both of us. It’s her 40th birthday soon and I’m going to buy her 40 presents.
Adele
I’ve never been more normal than I am now.
Adele
I’m scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I’ve thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don’t like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.
Adele
In five years’ time I’d like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I’d like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I’d like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
Adele
I don’t really need to stand out, there’s room for everyone. Although I haven’t built a niche yet, I’m just writing love songs.
Adele
I’m like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
Adele
I am quite loud and bolshie. I’m a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
Adele
I’ve been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I’ve had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.
Adele
I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.
Adele
The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal – because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, ‘Oh my God, this song is totally about me.’
Adele
It’s warts and all in my songs, and I think that’s why people can relate to them.
Adele
I wouldn’t be able to write a song like ‘Someone Like You’ and get someone else to sing it because it’s so personal. It’s like giving away your heart.
Adele
In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I’m explaining my songs I shouldn’t be so direct about who they’re about.
Adele
My body doesn’t have any rhythm, you know. I’ve got quite good rhythm when I’m singing but my feet are very much two left feet.
Adele
I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that’s not true. My house was haunted, that wasn’t true. God, there’s been so many rumours.
Adele
I can’t write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
Adele