Adele Goes All Out on Scorching Cover of June/July ‘Hot’ Issue of Out

British soul singer Adele, who has released one of the year's best-selling platters, scorches her way onto the cover of the June/July 'Hot' issue of Out. She even poses with a statue that isn't afraid to show itself off, full-frontal style, and it's a metaphor for how Adele is in life and in her music. She uses her sophomore set '21' to heal herself over a particularly nasty breakup that rocked her world to its very core.

Adele spoke about the ex, who might have smashed her heart but certainly inspired some incredible music that strikes a nerve, both with the singer and with listeners. He certainly left his mark on Adele's heart and ultimately, in her music."He was my soul mate,” the singer laments. "We had everything -- on every level we were totally right. We'd finish each other's sentences, and he could just pick up how I was feeling by the look in my eye, down to a T, and we loved the same things, and hated the same things, and we were brave when the other was brave and weak when the other one was weak -- almost like twins, you know -- and I think that's rare when you find the full circle in one person, and I think that's what I'll always be looking for in other men."

The best advice Adele got about navigating the murky, shark-infested waters of a break up was simple, but it stuck with her. "You will hurt until you stop hurting," Adele says about the advice she received from an assistant after her heart was splattered all over hell. "I'm trying to make that my new motto -- it will hurt until it stops hurting."

She also spoke about a neo-Spice Girls group she wants to start with fellow female chanteuses. "It was me as Ginger, Duffy as Baby, Leona (Lewis) as Mel B, Amy (Winehouse) as Mel C, because she's got the voice, and Lily (Allen) as Posh," Adele says. That lineup is even better than the real thing!

While the Spice Girls were styled according to very specific image parameters, Adele isn't trying to brand or market herself in any way other than as a singer. "My music's not stylized -- it's not sold by image, or by my sexuality, or aloofness, or anything like that," she explains. "I think it would be really bizarre if I started doing gimmicks and stunts -- it wouldn't suit my music."

She also doesn't consider herself superior simply because she has one of the most emotive, powerful and moving voices of her generation, humbly stating, "I've got lots of friends who are artists and they love it. They're, like, 'I was born to perform,' and I'm like, 'F--- off -- no one's born to perform.'"Adele was born this way and is making no apologies for it!

Watch Adele Talk About Her Inspiration for '21'