Adele, enjoying a second straight week at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Rolling In The Deep,” and an eighth week atop the albums chart with 21, looks smashing on the cover of the new issue of Out magazine.

The accompanying article is hugely illustrative, as you might expect from the singer-songwriter who’s as real as they come in music today. Adele holds little back, if anything at all, caring not the least bit about ‘image,’ whether talking about the doubts she has about her vocal talent (countless accolades and sellout crowds haven’t affected this stubborn self-perception) or sharing the story of receiving a “crispy tissue” in the mail from a male fan. Ew.

While we’ve heard Adele speak of her love for Aretha Franklin, Etta James, and Lauryn Hill before, among the new revelations in the Out interview is that she holds Sinead O’Connor in similar high regard. Adele says she’s thought of covering O’Connor’s “Troy” — from 1987’s The Lion And The Cobra, it’s the first song to ever have made her cry — but doesn’t believe she could do it justice (there’s that self-doubt again). “As an artist [Sinead] is everything I would like to be—it’s all about the song,” Adele says. “She moves me when I hear her.”

Funny thing, Adele. That’s exactly how much of the world thinks of you right now.

Read the entire Out interview here. The same issue features an interview with Robyn too. Total pop love.