If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Only the educated are free.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Never complain and never explain.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Know or listen to those who know.
Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.