Adele says she does not have “to tolerate” sadness anymore and revealed she feels her life is “falling into place”.
The star, whose album 30 is released on Friday, also told writer Candice Carty-Williams in an interview in The Face Magazine that she would not be changing her trademark sound that has seen her sell millions of records and top the charts worldwide.
Speaking about sadness, she said: “I used to think that I have to tolerate it and put up with it. But, actually, I can be joyful as well. You just have to sift through some f***ing s*** to get there.”
The singer is currently at number one with her single Easy On Me which broke streaming records when it hit 24 million listens in just one week and told Carty-Williams she would not be changing a winning formula.
She said: “Why would I shake up my sound? No one else is doing my sound, so why would I change it up?”
The 33-year-old singer, whose critically acclaimed new album is a reaction to her divorce, said she did not need validation from anyone else, saying: “I was told that from a young age. If you want something, you do it yourself. If you wanna end up somewhere, it’s your journey.”
Asked what advice she would give her younger self, the star said: “I tell myself: just keep going. Because, when you turn 33, it’ll all start falling into place.”
The new album is a follow-up to 2015’s 25 and Adele previously described it as a way of talking "madly, deeply" about who she is and the difficulties she faced following her divorce.
In a two-hour special with Oprah Winfrey, she said she and ex-husband Simon Konecki did not talk about the upcoming album, but added they remained friends.
She said 30 was dedicated to her son Angelo and is a way of showing him "who I am".
"The whole album is not about him, it’s about me and I just wanted him to hear me talking madly deeply about who I am and how I feel," she said.
"I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to have that conversation with him in real life, so he can go and listen to it."
The album is expected to dominate charts around the world and later this month a primetime special concert filmed at the London Palladium, An Audience With Adele, will be broadcast on ITV on November 21.
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