Adele Quotes

“I don't make music for the eyes, I make music for the ears.”

— Adele

I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

— Adele

I'm nervous whenever I perform

— Adele

“Crying is really bad for your vocal cords”

— Adele

“People say crazy things”

— Adele

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

— 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 loo. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to the gym.”

— 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

“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

“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

“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 a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.”

— 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

“It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.”

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

— Adele

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

— 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

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

— 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 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'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

“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 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

“I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.”

— Adele

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

— 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

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

— 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 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

“I don't rely on my figure to sell records.”

— 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

“My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.”

— 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 love hearing my audience breathe.”

— Adele

“Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, Standing on my own two feet.”

— Adele

Don't underestimate the things that I will do.

— Adele

“I won't let you close enough to hurt me.”

— Adele

I don't want to be on the cover of Playboy or Vogue.

— Adele

My aim in life is never to be skinny.

— Adele

“I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it and I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.”

— Adele

“In my hometown memories are fresh.”

— Adele

When it comes to staying myself - my career isn't my life, it doesn't come home with me. So it's a piece of piss staying grounded and not being changed by it. The same things I've always liked still satisfy me. My team's the same and my group of friends are the same. Of course I'm bowled over by people's response to 21, and when I meet artists I love, it blows my mind. But it baffles me as well. I go home and my best friend laughs at me, rather than going to a celebrity-studded party to rub shoulders with people who know me but who I don't know. I'm Z-list when it comes to that sh**.

— Adele

“I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys. Boys love their mothers whereas girls can be so mean to each other.”

— Adele

I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now ... besides, no one treats me as well as I do.

— Adele

Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.

— Adele

“Where you go, I go,
What you see, I see,
I know I'd never be me without the security,
Are your loving arms keeping me from harm
Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.”

— Adele

“I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you”

— Adele

“Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?”

— Adele