“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
“You can’t complain about your dressing room or you’ll look like Celine Dion.”
― 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’m a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.”
― 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
“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’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
“If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don’t know what I’ll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.”
― 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 was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, ‘You’re amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I’m listening to God.’”
― Adele
“I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.”
― 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
“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
“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 don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.”
― 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
“I don’t want people confusing what it is that I’m about. I just stand there and sing. And I don’t do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don’t think I’d get away with it.”
― Adele
“There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It’s like, ‘Just let them run it, then. Don’t you give them ammunition.’”
― Adele
“The thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying, ‘Oh, I prefer the record and she’s completely shattered the illusion’ really upsets me. It’s such a big deal that people come give me their time.”
― 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
“Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.”
― Adele
“I’m nervous whenever I perform.”
― Adele
“I am quite loud and bolshie. I’m a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.”
― 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 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 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 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
“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
“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 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
“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 like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.”
― 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 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
“It’s warts and all in my songs, and I think that’s why people can relate to them.”
― 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
“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 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 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
“Even if I did have, you know, a ‘Sports Illustrated’ body, I’d still wear elegant clothes.”
― Adele
“I have insecurities of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.”
― Adele
“I love a bit of drama. That’s a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.”
― Adele
“Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.”
― Adele
“I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I’m done with being a bitter witch.”
― Adele
“I am quite loud and bolshie.”
― Adele
“I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to.”
― Adele
“I don’t write songs about a specific, elusive thing.”
― 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
“I’m scared of audiences.”
― Adele
“I don’t like going to the gym.”
― Adele
“You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.”
― Adele
“There will be no new music until it’s good enough and until I’m ready.”
― Adele
“I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.”
― Adele
“I don’t date celebrities.”
― Adele
“I can’t believe I did a peace sign on TV – like Ringo Starr!”
― Adele
“I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.”
― Adele
“My worst fear is my music won’t connect with the public.”
― Adele
“I’m very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight.”
― 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 don’t want to be in everyone’s face. I’m a big music fan, and I get really pissed off when it gets like that… and I don’t want people to get like that with me.”
― Adele
“I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.”
― Adele
“People think that I popped out of my mother’s womb singing ‘Chasing Pavements’.”
― Adele
“I’d love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I’d love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.”
― Adele
“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 want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can’t remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I’ve become an artist. I’ve become the artist.”
― Adele
“I wanted to be a singer forever. But it’s not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.”
― Adele
“I find it quite difficult to think that there’s, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn’t write it being that it’s going to be a hit.”
― 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’ve always written down how I feel.”
― Adele
“I can’t dance to save my life.”
― Adele
“I don’t rely on my figure to sell records.”
― Adele
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