Adele: "I'll never not be making music, but I would love to be behind the scenes as well, putting my fingers in a lot of different pies."

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: "I definitely want more kids. I’m a homemaker and I’m a matriarch, and a stable life helps me with my music."

Adele: "Will you ask me if I'm a feminist? I don't think many men in interviews get asked if they're feminist. I believe that everyone should be treated the same, including race and sexuality."

Adele: "The bigger your career gets, the smaller your life gets."

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 am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud."

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: "Crying is really bad for your vocal cords."

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 love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly."

Adele: "I think I'm like the opposite of a comedian. Off stage they are miserable. With my records I am serious and sad but I get it out of me on my records. I've been told some of my songs make grown men cry. Then people meet me and it's all giggling and laughing. I suppose it's healthy."

Adele: “You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.”

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: "You're only as good as your next record."

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: "In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it."

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 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."

[Damon Albarn telling the press that Adele was "insecure”]

Adele: "He said I was insecure, when I’m the least-insecure person I know. I was asking his opinion about my fears, about coming back with a child involved — because he has a child — and then he calls me insecure?"

Adele: "I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like."

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 very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight."

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'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.”

Adele: “I thought, I’m just going to lock myself in a house. That’s what I did. I was very reclusive. It paid off, I think. People are used to me being a recluse.”

[On Tony Visconti] 

Adele: "Some d*ckhead tried to say that my voice was not me on record. Suck my d*ck."

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."

Adeele: "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: "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 don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears."

Adele: "It's like when I go and see certain bands, not to name any, and they don't play their f*cking biggest hit? C*nts! That really annoys me."

Adele: "The album's all about one boy and we had a fight in a club and I got thrown out, I punched him and I was running down Oxford Street. It was really late what everyone called it, and I was running on my own there was no one in front of me and I'm just chasing this pavement, and it's a metaphor."

Adele: “Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.”

Adele: "There's something I'm pulling from somewhere else... something else from underneath... I don't know what is it but it's coming through me... I don't know how I access it."

Adele: "I’ve been obsessed with a nuclear family my whole life because I never came from one."

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'm really bad at kind of expressing how I feel."

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 can’t dance to save my life.”

[On her song Hello]

Adele: "The song is about hurting someone’s feelings but it’s also about trying to stay in touch with myself, which sometimes can be a little bit hard to do. It’s about a yearning for the other side of me."

Adele: "I'm going to get so much f*cking grief: 'Why is it called 25 when you're not 25?'"

Adele: "I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me."

Adele: "I don't rely on my figure to sell records."

Adele: “Would I show my body off if I was thinner? Probably not, because my body is mine. But sometimes I’m curious to know if I would have been as successful if I wasn’t plus-size. I think I remind everyone of themselves. Not saying everyone is my size, but it’s relatable because I’m not perfect, and I think a lot of people are portrayed as perfect, unreachable and untouchable.”

Adele: "You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods."

Adele: "I’ve got to clear a lot of stuff the f*ck out, which is really therapeutic, ’cause I can really hold a grudge. Life is so much easier when you don’t hoard your past."

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 started knocking out some sh*t songs – they weren’t sh*t, they were good pop songs, but I was just trying to bang it out, I didn’t want to think about it. And, you know, it got rejected. My manager was like, ‘This isn’t good enough.’ It knocked my confidence a bit, but I also knew, you know."

Adele: "I will always trust my intuition going forward."

[On what she had discovered about herself through self-reflection]

Adele: "Just how, like, wildly defensive I am. I didn't realize. It was like, without even listening to what someone might say to me, I would just hear a tone or something I wouldn't like — and rather than me looking into it and asking, 'Can you explain that more?' or whatever, I would just go on a bloody rampage. Shut it down immediately. Which stops you from growing, you know?"

Digimask: "She has a reputation as a controller"