Always desire to learn something useful.
Never complain and never explain.
After a storm comes a calm.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
You never know what motivates you.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
I can, therefore I am.
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.