Adele's Quotes

#1. Adele's look is meticulously thought through and completely of her own traits. She has such a powerful beauty, such an emotional voice, and the kohl, the hair, everything feels organically molded to her personality.

Xavier Dolan

#2. Adele's voice is incredible. Chet Baker also has one of my favorite voices of all time, and so does Joni Mitchell. And Frank Black. Oh, and Stevie Nicks.

Megan Boone

#3. I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

Iggy Azalea

#4. Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.

Joe Jonas

#5. Now I understand the depth of the sadness." William turned and looked at her. "In the painting? Adele's eyes look as though they go deeper than the back of the canvas. It's because of what she saw, because of all the people who walked by her and she was powerless to stop it.

Kristy Cambron

#6. Her body was tense, her small teeth sunk into her upper lip. Her eyes flashed upward at Aloysius, and he started at what he saw in them.
Pain. It was normal to feel some pain at the bestowing of a Mark, but what he saw in Adele's eyes- was agony.

Cassandra Clare

#7. If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.

Ed Sheeran

#8. Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

Paloma Faith

#9. I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.

Tinie Tempah

#10. People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time.

Kimbra

#11. Does my request make sense in terms of my child's age and ability? (Am I expecting an eight-year-old to have perfect table manners?)

Adele Faber

#12. 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

#13. Yesterday's triumph of scoring two goals is forgotten.

Adele Parks

#14. Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.

Adele Faber

#15. Sensuality disappears when we stop exploring curiously and fall into the trap of playing out roles. We start to see ourselves through our partner's eyes and believe that is all we can be.

Adele Green

#16. Caroline's lips thinned, her face flushed. "My husband, sir, has more secrets in his tiny, insignificant mind than the entire British War Department has had on file since its inception." She huffed with pure, disgusted outrage, lowering her gaze to the floor to murmur, "I'll kill him.

Adele Ashworth

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

Adele Exarchopoulos

#18. I'm not on good terms with any of my exes. That's why we're not together anymore. We're not friends.

Adele

#19. Would I show my body off if I was thinner? Probably not, because my body is mine. I think I remind everyone of themselves. I'm 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

#20. 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

#21. Aunt Clara doesn't take her eyes off her toast. Her delicate jet earrings tremble as her knife scratches at the toast like a cat's paw, buttering every inch. Strange how even the most mundane habits of dislikable people can strike such harsh chords. I even hate the way Aunt butters.

Adele Griffin

#22. Adele was in everybody's wish list, and her list of Romeos was nearly as long as the Yellow Pages. Some witty person had suggested that her family needed a system of traffic lights to avoid fatal crashes for the men in her life.

Olga Nunez Miret

#23. I love that I never know who I'm going to meet next in New York. Sometimes I imagine all these millions of kids who have come here like jeweled doorknobs marked "turn me." It's an Alice-in-Wonderland kind of city.

Adele Griffin

#24. 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.

Adele

#25. Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

L.A. Reid

#26. My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.

Brandy Norwood

#27. Whenever I'm about to eat meat I always see my little dog's eyes.

Adele

#28. Eliza's constant harping didn't even get to Martha, although it sometimes seemed that Eliza's raison d'etre was to urinate on Martha's parade.

Adele Parks

#29. She's your mother. She loves you. How can you hide from her?"

"Her love is like the sun. Get sunstroke if you stand in it too long.

Adele Geras

#30. Because if there's anything you need to be a physical therapist, it's a sense of humor.

Adele Levine

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Adele Griffin

#35. What do we want most for our children? What's most important in the grand scheme of things? We want them to grow up and be happy.

Adele Devine

#36. People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.

Adele

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

Adele Exarchopoulos

#38. I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.

Amber Riley

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

Adele

#40. Lauryn Hill's always been a hero of mine. And Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae and Adele, those are the current artists I would reference in terms of who's been able to do really amazing pop records with really cool, organic throwback elements of soul in there as well.

Judith Hill

#41. I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.

Roger Daltrey

#42. We found that when we accepted our children's feelings they were more able to accept the limits we set for them.

Adele Faber

#43. Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys ... Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.

Jack White

#44. One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken." Margot

Jenny Han

#45. 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

#46. 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.

Adele

#47. Make a run for it! A voice in my head commanded me. Make a run for it, before it's too late! This voice was clearly sensible. However, sometimes I wasn't sensible, especially when intrigue was involved.

Adele Rose

#48. 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.

Adele

#49. People keep putting limitations on themselves and creating this reality that soul music is dead. That's only in their reality. It's not true. To me, Adele is R&B. Bruno Mars is R&B. It's just good songwriting and songs. That is going to last.

Ester Dean

#50. At the end of the day," he continued, "although many believe in fate, it's those who go through life with independent thought alone who are the strongest.

Adele Rose

#51. I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.

Adele

#52. Adele is so great! I love "Someone Like You"! Everyone is just raving about it. What's so nice about it - and a lot of her songs - is it just takes it back to basics.

Kerry Ellis

#53. I always sing Adele in the shower. But everyone should know you never sing an Adele song in public because no one's better than Adele.

Lea Michele

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

Adele

#55. 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

#56. Love expands your soul with something inexplicably fulfilling. If you die without ever having experienced it, you will miss life's only true joy

Adele Ashworth

#57. If I'm in love with him, how come I can so perfectly inhabit the mindset of thinking he's a git and the bane of my life?

Adele Parks

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

Adele

#59. Physical therapy has a high burnout rate. The long hours of intense one-on-one time is emotionally fatiguing. And while we universally love our patients, there's always one rotten apple in the bunch who just breaks you down.

Adele Levine

#60. 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

#61. I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

Xavier Dolan

#62. Of course, it's always complicated to shoot a sex scene.

Adele Exarchopoulos

#63. There's a fire starting in my heart

Adele

#64. It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster.
Adele, Henry's Mother

Joyce Maynard

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

Adele Scheele

#66. Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.

Adele Griffin

#67. You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, Man, that's attractive - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.

Anthony Hamilton

#68. Changing things in education involves hard work, determination and an ability to swim against the tide.

Adele Devine

#69. We are not soul freelancers, but beings created to dance in the arms of the Trinity.

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

#70. 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

#71. The incomprehension is when the thing happens without knowing the reasons.

Adele Mandez

#72. There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

Pat Benatar

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

Adele

#74. I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.

Zendaya

#75. I love Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Adele.

Casey Wilson

#76. 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.

Adele Griffin

#77. The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we've got is Justin Bieber, who'd be locked up if he tried the stuff Gaga gets away with. Women are the only rock stars now. Adele is brutally honest. I want to be like her.

Tom Odell

#78. 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.

Adele

#79. You know what happens on live TV?
Janet Jackson's Super Bowl Boob happens on live TV. Adele Dazeem happens on live TV. President Al Gore happens on live TV

Shonda Rhimes

#80. For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

Adele

#81. The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'

Adele

#82. But he's got your way of making me lean into peace whenever I see red.

Adele Griffin

#83. I love Adele so much and it's honestly not because we're both big.

Beth Ditto

#84. I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young ... " I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

Jake Gyllenhaal

#85. Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken.

Jenny Han

#86. There are youngsters who prefer no talk at all when they're upset. For them, Mom or Dad's presence is comfort enough.

Adele Faber

#87. 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

#88. In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

Adele Exarchopoulos

#89. Regardless of a patient's true motives to get out of bed, I always applaud on the inside. That's what physical therapy is all about. To get them out of bed. To coax them down to the rehab gym.

Adele Levine

#90. There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'

Adele

#91. Give information. What we like about giving information is that, in a sense, you're giving the child a gift he can use forever. For the rest of his life he'll need to know that "milk turns sour when it's not refrigerated,

Adele Faber

#92. I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.

Beth Ditto

#93. One father said that what helped him become more sensitive to his son's emotional needs was when he began to equate the boy's bruised, unhappy feelings with physical bruises.

Adele Faber

#94. I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.

Timothy Keller

#95. To be loved equally," I continued, "is somehow to be loved less. To be loved uniquely - for one's own special self - is to be loved as much as we need to be loved.

Adele Faber

#96. When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

Adele Faber

#97. Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.

Dave Haywood

#98. It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

Adele

#99. In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good.

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

#100. Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

Adele