Quotes by Adele

"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."

"Crying is really bad for your vocal cords."

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

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

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

"I've never been more normal than I am now."

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

"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."

"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 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."

"My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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 look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym."

"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."

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