Adele is almost as talented at giving interviews as she is at singing – peradventure even more so . The 28 - year - sometime belter is wise beyond her year , and she has no trouble sharing the lessons she ’s learned on her path from Tottenham to motherhood and worldwide superstardom .
Since her perennial inverted comma are enceinte model of humbleness , perseverance , and self - love , we round off up the serious of ‘em for you to pin up on your booth wall . They sound best if you take them with " Chasing pavement " playing in the background signal .
" It sound obvious , but I consider you only learn to have sex again when you devolve in love again . “The Guardian , 2015
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" I never wanted to look like good example on the cover of magazines . I represent the legal age of fair sex and I ’m very majestic of that . “Peoplemagazine , 2012
" My career ’s not my life . It ’s my hobby . “Rolling Stone , 2015
" I ’ve never had a job with the way I count . I ’d rather have lunch with my acquaintance than go to a gymnasium . “Daily Mail , 2009
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" As fourth dimension went on , I realise I had no choice . I have to write more music for myself , and there ’s nothing else I want to do . “New York Times , 2015
" I ca n’t be a production ; no one can do that to me . I have all the say ; I have superpower over everything I do . “Daily Mail , 2009
" I do n’t think sadness is always crushing . It can be quite uplifting and gleeful as well and sometimes , you have to let yourself be pitiful in rules of order to move forward , so once I sort of begin see at it like that , I was quite happy to do it and also I felt like I did n’t demand to let myself go this prison term so as to access my creativeness , so that was dependable . “The Today Show , 2015
" When I sing ' Someone Like You , ' I know that every exclusive person in the elbow room will be able-bodied to relate to it . That ’s where that emotional connexion make out from . I have sympathy for myself , I have sympathy for them , they have sympathy for me , and I know that we are all there knowing on the dot how each other feel . It ’s like a big pact . you could just feel it . you could slice up it . “Vogue , 2012
" compare to my Quaker , I ’m not that unusual . It ’s only magnified because I happen to pen about it . “Vogue U.K.,2011
" I have n’t got meter to fall apart . I ’m the backbone for my kid , and I desire to be there for him . And I want to be there for my boyfriend as well , and I do n’t want to play them down with me for my art . “New York Times , 2015
" I ’m a feminist . I believe that everyone should be treat the same , including race and gender . “Rolling Stone , 2015
" I care looking nice , but I always put comfortableness over fashion . I do n’t find oneself 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 . “Daily Mail , 2009
" Yeah , I cast quite a mountain before depart on stage – though never actually on stagecoach – but then I tell on myself before everything … affair is , the bountiful the freakout , the more I enjoy the show . “Vogue U.K. , 2011
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" I used to fucking love the dramatic event of all of it , but now I ’m a mum I only have so much head space . I ’ve got to clear a mass of stuff the fuck out , which is really sanative , ‘cause I can really hold a grudge . lifespan is so much easier when you do n’t amass your past . “i - D , 2015
" I do n’t require to have moldable operating theatre . I ’m going to appear like this forever . Deal with it . Once you deal with it , you find more calm about it . “Time , 2015
" I think it ’s really important that you do n’t think you ’re neat . Because once you get to that point , you just f * * * everything up . You think that everyone ’s going to call back you ’re great all the time , and that ’s rubbish . “NPR , 2015
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" The liberal that your career get , the little your life gets . “Rolling Stone , 2015
" I think everyone take for granted I do n’t care where I am , or what I ’ve done , or what I ’ve become . But actually I bang it . Because I ’m an creative person , I have an ego , and it likes to be fed . “The Guardian , 2015
" I wish myself more than ever . I experience so comfortable in my own skin . I really care how I calculate , I care who I am , I like everyone that I surround myself with . plainly I have insecurity , but they do n’t hold me back . “Vogue , 2016
" I ’m just going to sing now because I want to , and I ’ll make records when I want to and not because someone is hale me to do it . Not that anyone ever has . I ’d fire them if they tried!“Vogue , 2016
" My life is full of drama , and I do n’t have time to occupy about something as petty as what I count like . I do n’t like going to the gym . I wish eating all right food and drinking overnice wine . Even if I had a really good figure , I do n’t intend I ’d get my tits and ass out for no one . I love seeing Lady Gaga ’s boobs and layabout . I jazz seeing Katy Perry ’s dummy and bum . Love it . But that ’s not what my music is about . I do n’t make music for eyes , I make music for ears . “Rolling Stone , 2011
" When I have nothing to say , I ’d rather just not talk . “Rolling Stone , 2015
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