Adele

“I loved making the two films that I made. That was the most fun I've ever had in my entire life,”

“I don’t have any plans to be on stage indefinitely, really,”

“have any plans for new music, at all”

“I want a big break after this and I think I want to do other creative things, just for a little while,”

“I know that sounds a bit like I’m trying to write a Hollywood movie but it’s only because of him and our kids and stuff that I’m all right,”

“But I don’t think I could pull it off. There’s only one Madonna.”

“And you’re all thrown together at this party when you’re like 50, and it doesn’t matter and you have so much fun and you feel like you’re 15 again. So that’s the kind of vibe of it really.”

“I like Chvrches a lot. I like Grimes a lot. Those are the ones who are my favorites that are relatively new,”

“I would never disrespect her like that.”

“It was based on us being older, and being at a party at this house, and seeing everyone that you’ve ever fallen out with, everyone that you’ve ever loved, everyone that you’ve never loved, and stuff like that, where you can’t find the time to be in each other lives,”

“It was just like, ‘Tour.’ Because I haven’t done it properly.”

“And that’s not a way to make any kind of record,”

“relatable because I’m not perfect, and I think a lot of people are portrayed as perfect, unreachable and untouchable.”

“And the saddest thing was that I was such a big Blur fan growing up. But it was sad, and I regret hanging out with him.”

“Many of the songs sounded like they might be on a different pop artist’s album,”

“I’m very successful at what I do”

“When he said it, I couldn’t work out if I was, like, devastated, going to cry my eyes out,”

“It ended up being one of those ‘don’t meet your idol’ moments,”

“Especially when I’m trying to f—ing follow 21. So I went back to the drawing board, really.”

“When I’ve sat down and thought, ‘What can I do to bring something new to the table?’”

“And I think that’s where a lot of people go wrong, thinking that people will buy any old shit from you.”

“Some songs are not f—ing good enough,”

“the song’s really conversational.”

“We wrote this song called ‘When We Were Young’ at the most insane house in L.A., and we wrote it at Philip Glass‘ piano, which was just insane. I would have been devastated if we left without a song for the record.”

“the magnitude of stuff that’s happened”

“everyone is going to think it’s an advert for furniture stores.”

“It’s a very ’70s singer-songwriter vibe,”

“It was a great marketing idea,”

“Which is Tobias’ thing, which is why I picked him.”