Quotes from Adele

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

You can't complain about your dressing room or you'll look like Celine Dion.

I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

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

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

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

I don't date celebrities.

Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

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 can't dance to save my life.

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

My aim in life is never to be skinny.

I am quite loud and bolshie.

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

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.

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.

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.