Adele on the cover of The Face, Winter 2021.

Promoting her new album, '30', Adele covers the Winter 2021 issue of The Face magazine, as photographed by Charlotte Wales, and styled by Emma Wyman.

On what her new album means to her: "I just wanted to acknowledge all of the many layers of myself, which I think is definitely something that comes with age. Obviously, after a really big life moment, like my divorce, it’s good to experiment a little bit more with sort of eclectic inspirations. I wanted to, more than anything, just comfort myself. It wasn’t really about what I wanted to say for people. It was more like: ​'What do I need to hear for myself, lyrically?'"

On becoming a mother: "I don’t think I was ever completely selfless before I had Angelo. I still have that thing where every decision I make, I think of him first. And rightly so. Some parents don’t do that. I do. It still makes me mourn myself a bit every now and then. Maybe I’m not mourning anymore, maybe I’m more yearning. A little bit like: ooh, what would I do and where would I go?"

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