On Friday, the singer’s long awaited third album, 25, will be released. The album’s first single, Hello, has already racked-up an astonishing 380,534,401 YouTube views at time of writing, sold over half a million copies in the UK alone, and accelerated straight to number one in the charts here and in the US – under a month after release.

And yet, this 27-year-old Tottenham-born dreamer-turned megastar, is not resting on her laurels, revealing to the paper that she is “60% excited, 40% shitting it” about the reception of her new album – despite the unprecedented success of her previous two.

“You can’t make assumptions,” she says. “I don’t think anything’s a given. You don’t know.”

Other than a modest approach, the difference at the heart of her new album, 25, and the previous success of 21, is that 25 didn’t come to the singer quite as easily as 21 did.

The singer reveals that this is, in part, due to her new role as a mother – she was unable to completely immerse herself in her song writing.

“I couldn’t give in to any of that in order to access my creativity. There was no opportunity…. Because now I’m responsible for someone,” says the singer.

But despite this, Adele says that having her son, Angelo (age) has endowed her with a confidence she didn’t have before.

“I felt so mega having given birth; the confidence from that, I felt unstoppable,” she says.

“I felt proud of what I’d achieved with 21 for the first time. And now everything I do, in every channel of my life, is part of a legacy that I’m making for my child.”

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