Interview Quotes

Adele's Life and Career Insights

"well i reckon that this is a perfect time to do 73 questions with adele to pinch myself that this is actually happening right now"

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:00:00

"i'm great i'm really great i'm excited i'm about to put my new album out and i'd assume that that's the number one thing you're most excited about in life right"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:00:50

"typical brit wearing a track suit in this like 90 degree weather it's okay you look great thank you and how has los angeles and the states been treating you these days great i've loved being here i'm very calm the past year has been challenging it has has there been one thing you've learned during this time just how much of a homebody i am and i probably would never leave my house if i didn't need to"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:01:46

"on tour as soon as possible i'm ready to go really it's just up to covid so just keep on wearing your mask and don't be spreading that delta"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:02:20

"i guess because i got signed my favorites are like brilliant so i don't really rate myself with a singer"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:03:08

"probably madam jojo's i played there a few times plus all my friends used to play there as well"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:04:05

"glory glory tottenham hotspur glory glory tottenham hotspur glory glory tottenham hotspur god goes wild"

— SPEAKER_00 • 00:04:25

"definitely jack pinate yeah definitely jamie t kid harpoon let me grab that thank you definitely laura marling definitely lilly allen because she was the queen of myspace at the time probably a bit of scroobius pip um maybe the maccabees that's how many is that like six i'm entirely sure"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:05:38

"because my surname is so boring it's adkins"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:06:00

"i tried to make it for a little english countryside yeah i feel like i'm there"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:06:35

"that my sarcastic humor doesn't actually travel"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:06:54

"tea and coffee culture"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:07:11

"you have your own funky language for things like this is actually coriander not cilantro and your eggplants are actually your movie theaters we call cinemas your candy we call sweets kind of the list is kind of endless"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:07:30

"yes and no this looks super duper healthy because i'm making a vegetable soup tonight but normally there's some cereals some sugar cereal for my son and stringy cheese he loves and milkshakes and things like that but kind of yeah you know i watch i watch what i put into my body these days"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:08:20

"well i say tesco simply because that was the only supermarket that was in my neighborhood when i was growing up but actually it's marks and spencer's"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:09:00

"i think how much i really enjoyed being in the studio environment actually"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:09:45

"without a doubt it was sir paul mccartney and then at the end of the show that i did my first ever singing performance on he sang hey june so it was incredible what a moment"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:10:25

"live tv in america in general but also i knew that a few extra people were tuning in because of sarah palin so i'd definitely shout myself yep that happened"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:10:55

"um i don't love it but ever since 21 sort of came out really i just my hair gets bigger my makeup gets thicker and my dresses get bigger so that i practically look a bald eagle or something like that in day-to-day life"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:11:30

"well i would say that but i don't know that many people that have real books in their house anymore they seem to have kindles or they just don't read at all or on their phone or something like that so i'd say back in the day yeah"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:13:15

"them drunk chaotic distressed very very sad um yeah along those lines"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:13:55

"they are all hidden in a handbag somewhere in my wardrobe room in london and i actually have no idea which one so they could be missing for all i know"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:14:25

"probably don't you remember it was sort of my attempt at a country song um it starts super duper tender and soft which i'm not brilliant at by the end i'm wailing which is way more my comfort zone but um i'd say don't you remember"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:15:10

"he just you know he was just sort of very encouraging to stay silent and be patient and that actually my injury was a very common singer's injury so not to worry too much about it so yeah he was great he's such a sweetheart i like him so much"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:15:50

"it was definitely heading towards a tom waits sound that i had before my surgery getting very very husky um and afterwards it was a brand new voice it was so clean and pure yeah yeah"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:16:25

"hate slides it's got to be heels barefoot on stage barefoot so i don't fall over"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:17:05

"well i would say probably my armani moment in 2012 at the grammys and i was pregnant so i just love that dress"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:17:35

"cate blanchett who always gets it right on the red carpet cate blanchett okay"

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:17:50

"dear wings pat mcgrath"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:18:05

"just keep on doing what you're doing comfort over style"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:18:20

"it was but what was the easiest song on the album to write definitely remedy i think it's probably because about my son"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:19:20

"all about the hooks uh for anyone looking to write a killer pop song what's the most important piece of advice to consider it's all about the hooks about the hooks"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:19:55

"well 19 i had a long been signed so i only had like four songs so i had to actually really write an album it felt like uh 21 i couldn't stop writing it it was just pouring out of me i was such a hot mess and then 25 i just didn't have time to write really so i just had a newborn baby so not much"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:20:20

"um after you i would say the anz stadium in sydney it was something silly like a hundred thousand people"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:21:10

"always london yeah"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:21:45

"sadly not no no none whatsoever"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:22:05

"a middle-aged woman drink too much pass out then piss herself while she got carried out vegas obviously vegas obviously obviously obviously"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:22:30

"i do to quite a few of my new ones yeah wow"

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:22:55

"that your love life's gonna get a lot worse oh truth truth yeah"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:23:15

"well the best advice i ever got was um to keep your heart safe and your music dangerous and i live by that so that would be my piece of advice too"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:24:00

"um i just don't really have much time to do it anymore"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:24:20

"to chill out and stop being so regimented with the routine"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:24:45

"probably when she moved back in with me when i was 21 i was really falling apart and she lovingly put me back together so sweet"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:25:05

"felt like i had to it was right around the corner from where my house in london is and it was you know it was overtook the uk we couldn't believe that there was a building like that in the middle of central london that had burnt down um and i just wanted to be a safe and consistent person for them which i hope i was"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:26:15

"definitely loyal"

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:26:35

"yes but it's i think it's good it's hoo-ha from his role as reason centers or maybe it tanked yeah"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:26:55

"helium helium the album the chipmunk try tunnel reverb that sounds like i'm singing in a shower i'm up for that one i'm up for that sounds like a shower yeah that's definitely me on the new album all right now let's hear you drunk just tell me the next album is like that pretty much pretty much that's what the whole album sounds like thank you"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:28:05

"i reckon so i reckon someone like you would be number one i think there's a new song on um the new album that would be my number second or be my second one and then when we were young i really love that song i love singing it it means a lot to me"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:29:10

"the hive might come and kill me i'm okay my personal favorites my first one is sasha fierce that sublime double album the second one would be lemonade the third one is a bit of a toss-up between two but i'm gonna go with my gut and my heart and i'm gonna say b-day"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:29:50

"it was actually really easy i was just so uncomfortable and nervous up on the stage trying to give that speech right in front of her i just sort of twisted off and fell off in my hand it felt like fate"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:30:20

"it was incredible it was live on radio i don't even know if he knew that he was doing it he just sort of had to watch the video and read the lyrics oh you know read his script and stuff like that but he's like everything in the uk like we love him so much um and he's my mom's hero so it was phenomenal"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:31:20

"i think all the crazy rumors about my love life um you know since i've been single and stuff like that they're just none of it's true so probably those"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:32:20

"no i've been very very lucky with that and i know that no never"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:32:45

"yeah noel or liam definitely liam without a doubt prince william or prince harry prince harry spicy spice goes with the beatles i mean that's a bit unfair but i'm gonna go spice girls"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:33:35

"they really don't care they really really really don't care about anything and i can think just their brashness and stuff like that i think"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:34:00

"james corden who's a friend of mine but also does carpool karaoke which i did he did it with her and knew how much a fan of her i was and so he made her spit her gum into a piece of paper he framed it for me and it's my proudest possession"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:34:35

"does anything ever really end what one specific thing that's different in this album than every other album it's definitely my most personal one yet i think yeah"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:35:25

"well i was heavily pregnant actually when i did the vocal for skyfall so and it's the only song that i recorded while i was pregnant with him so my voice was a lot lower and he also hated it when i was singing the high notes he'd sort of kick around inside of me"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:37:10

"i would like jonathan major to be the next one but i know if that's allowed because it's american would you like some milk yeah yeah i'd love that um but i think idris elba"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:37:50

"my heart will go on"

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:38:15

"barbara streisand"

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:38:30

"mum lee there you go oh thank you"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:38:55

"kai's i'll just keep going with the british questions oh please do"

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:39:15

"the warmer castle oh the tea is good"

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:39:35

"that it always rains what about one that's completely false i feel like everyone thinks that we've all met the queen and we haven't so yeah"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:40:05

"oh i noticed that i have been binge watching on the telly ted lasso i think it's great it's very british as well"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:41:05

"well if it's your own natural hair as a beehive it gets a bit smelly yeah"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:41:30

"get someone else to do it for you"

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:41:50

"probably the 60s what should everyone have in their wardrobe a cozy jumper aka sweater"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:42:10

"leaving my marriage"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:42:45

"i'd like to think i'd still be doing small little gigs in pubs and clubs on my guitar even though i'm sure no one will come and see me um but i really wanted to be an english teacher before all this happened so i'd like to think that i'd be doing that"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:43:15

"they're all on a new album oh yes"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:43:45

"leonard cohen oh love him me too"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:44:00

"han zimmer"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:44:15

"chris stapleton wow"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:44:30

"you know i went for comfort i was listening to show some emotion by joan armor trading it reminds me of home reminds me of my mum so i was listening to that a lot that's sweet"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:45:00