Adele Quotes

I love hearing my audience breathe.

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.

I don't like going to the gym.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

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.

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

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

It's hard to be natural in a scene when you pick up the phone and no one is there.

Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.

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.

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

Connecting expands possibilities - in work and in life - for ourselves as well as for others.

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

I can't believe I did a peace sign on TV - like Ringo Starr!

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I want to leave an album behind that is classic, that people in 50 years will refer to and pass on to their children. An album that you never bored of.

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.

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.

I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

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

I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.

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

When I want to party, I play Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love." That's always been the song that my friends and I get ready to; or before I go on a first date, I play it to feel sexy.

I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

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

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

I know you haven't made your mind up yet But I would never do you wrong I've known it from the moment that we met No doubt in my mind where you belong

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

I've always written down how I feel.

My aim in life is never to be skinny.

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.

Nothing that I wouldn't do, to make you feel my love

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.

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.

You had my heart inside of your hand but you played it to the beat

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.

I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and a** out for no one.

There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.