Words matter. These are the best Adele Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.
It’s warts and all in my songs, and I think that’s why people can relate to them.
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.
I can’t believe I did a peace sign on TV – like Ringo Starr!
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.
I am quite loud and bolshie.
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.
I can’t dance to save my life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I can’t write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
I’m like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.
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 love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.
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.
I’m nervous whenever I perform.
I don’t like going to the gym.
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.
I’m scared of audiences.
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.
I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to.
I’m a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
I’m very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight.
I have insecurities of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.
You can’t complain about your dressing room or you’ll look like Celine Dion.
I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I’m done with being a bitter witch.
Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.
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.
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.
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.
People think that I popped out of my mother’s womb singing ‘Chasing Pavements’.
Even if I did have, you know, a ‘Sports Illustrated’ body, I’d still wear elegant clothes.
