Adele has announced that she will be taking a "big break" from music after her upcoming concerts.
The musician recently revealed to German broadcaster ZDF that her Las Vegas residency was emotionally draining and she missed her life before she became a global celebrity.
"My tank is quite empty at the minute," she was quoted as saying, adding: "I don't have any plans for new music at all.”
"I want a big break after all this, and I think I want to do other creative things just for a little while.”
"You know, I don't even sing at home at all. How strange is that?"
The “Hello” hitmaker has spent the past two years playing her weekend residency “Weekends With Adele”, at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, and is due to conclude these shows in November.
"Even though it's a very manageable size of crowd, it's really been an emotional exchange," she explained.
Adele is set to perform in Europe for the first time since 2016, next month. She also has a 10-date string of gigs booked at Munich's Messe exhibition centre for August.
She told ZDF that she planned to step away from the spotlight as she missed her life before she found fame.
"I miss everything about before I was famous, I think probably being anonymous the most," she said.
"I like that I get to make music all the time, whenever I want to, and people are receptive to it and like it. That's pretty unimaginable. But the fame side of it, I absolutely hate.
"The fact that people are even interested in my songs and my voice is pretty wild. I don't think it ever gets normal. So it's worth it, the balance."
“I want a big break after this and I think I want to do other creative things, just for a little while,” she told the outlet.
Adele also spoke about her life as a global superstar. “I don’t like being famous,” she said. “I love that I get to make music all the time.”
And while she has enjoyed her US concerts, not every Vegas concert has gone according to plan. Last month, Adele confronted a homophobic heckler during one of her shows who allegedly yelled "Pride sucks" at the gathering.
She responded by saying: "Did you come to my... show and just say that Pride sucks?"
"Don’t be so... ridiculous. "If you have nothing nice to say, shut up, all right?"
Asked about the incident, she admitted that she was easily riled up.
"Everything makes me angry," she said. "Absolutely everything. "I'm 36 years old. I'm old and grumpy now."
Meanwhile, her Munich shows will be on an entirely different scale to the Las Vegas residency, with 74,000 fans expected to watch her every night in a specially-built "pop up" stadium.
The venue will also host an "Adele experience" featuring an English pub, a stage for a cover band and stalls selling especially designed cocktails.
The British singer broke into the industry as a 19-year-old in 2008 with her first album "19", before releasing her second album, 21, in 2011, and 25, in 2015.
Her second album is the fourth best-selling album of all-time in the UK, behind Queen, ABBA, and The Beatles.
In November 2021, she had a comeback after five years when she released her latest album “30”, following her divorce from Simon Konecki.