I’ll never make an album as good as 21, she admits

ADELE thinks she will never make an album as good as 21 because having a baby has made her less carefree.

She also admitted that much of the confession tone of the album, released in 2011, came from drinking while writing.

But now the mother-of-one is so worried about taking care of herself that she ‘avoids anything that is remotely dangerous’ – including walking on pavements, for fear a car will run her down.

The album 21 – which contained the hits Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You – spent 23 weeks at number one in the UK charts and was last year crowned the biggest-selling UK album of the decade, selling five million copies.

The star said: ‘I can see from an outsider’s perspective that I will never write songs as good as the ones that are on 21, but I’m not as indulgent as I was then, and I don’t have time to fall apart like I did then.

‘I was completely off my face writing that album, and a drunk tongue is an honest one. I would drink two bottles of wine, and I would chain-smoke.

‘Then I’d write the lyrics down and the next morning think, f***, that’s quite good. Then I’d find the melody. But since I’ve had my baby, I’m not as carefree as I used to be.

‘I’m scared of a lot of things now because I don’t want to die; I want to be around for my kid. I’m very cautious, whereas I was never cautious before.

‘I would never have done anything before that would make me die, but now I go out of my way to avoid anything that is remotely dangerous — like walking along a sidewalk.

‘I’d rather walk on the grass or a lawn, rather than the pavement, in case a car crashes into me.’