Adele rarely discusses her personal life in much detail, but she did touch on motherhood, albeit briefly, admitting, 'It's f-- hard. I thought it would be easy. 'Everyone f-- does it, how hard can it be?' Ohhhhh� I had no idea. It is hard but it's phenomenal. It's the greatest thing I ever did. It used to be that my own world revolved around me, but now it has to revolve around him."

In the face of her massive successes, she's managed to stay grounded. If anything, fame is something she continues to be wary of because of how much it can change a person. "I'm just frightened of it, you know?" she says. "Frightened of it destroying me and it ruining me, and me getting lost and turning into some of the people that I love with my whole musical heart. I get frightened. And I get frightened for the people that I love, feeling like they've lost me.