Quotes

“I'm nervous whenever I perform.” Adele

“In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.” Adele

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

“My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.” Adele

“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

“I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.” Adele

“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

“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

“I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.” Adele

“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.” Adele

“I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.” Adele

“If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.” Adele

“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.” Adele

“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

“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

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” Lance Armstrong

“Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.” Lance Armstrong

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” Lance Armstrong

“There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'” Lance Armstrong

“If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.” Lance Armstrong

“A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.” Lance Armstrong

“The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.” Lance Armstrong

“Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.” Lance Armstrong

“Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.” Lance Armstrong

“I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.” Lance Armstrong

“If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.” Lance Armstrong

“Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.” Lance Armstrong

“I still don't get golf.” Lance Armstrong

“Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.” Lance Armstrong

“If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.” Lance Armstrong