The pop star, 32, is dating rapper and fellow Brit Skepta, 38, a source close to Adele confirms to PEOPLE in this week's issue, on newsstands Friday. In recent months "things have been heating up ...

but you can shoot things at people," she added with a laugh. "It's a total reverse. I've gotta go back over and give my t-shirt gun back." Adele continued, "These people have lost it. Can you ...

"I have spent the last seven years building a new life for myself, and I want to live it now," the singer, 36, told the ...

Adele is a singer and songwriter whose songs ... cause they're not officially chords – they're just random things that sounded nice. And then I started writing [songs] and writing them in ...