Adele in America

"There was a load of heart memorabilia on the tour! Balloons, cakes and stickers! I was putting them on my laptop and they ended up on my face" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"Slash came to my show in LA! He was very nice, very weird that he came. But he said he was a huge fan. He came in a stretch Hummer!" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"In San Francisco, my sound guy said there were a few fans outside so I went to say hello. There were about 1,000. Security shit themselves" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"On stage in San Francisco, in my socks again" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"Asleep on my tour bus bunk, dreaming of a bigger bus" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"A clothes rack in the New York Vogue office. Ha ha!" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"I can't walk in heels to save my life and Vogue picked these for me" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"A boy gave me this balloon and a singing snow globe in Boston" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"Having a lemonade. In a diner. In Omaha" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"I got courtside seats to watch the New Jersey Nets versus Oklahoma City Thunder. I was so embarrassed" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"In bed with Spider-Man, and Barack Obama" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"The final fitting for my Grammys dress in LA" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"Annie Leibovitz took my photo for Vogue! She asked me not to have my room cleaned for a whole week" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"I saw Duffy just before we went into the auditorium, and we'd both just learned we'd won something." (Duffy received the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.) "We were so excited. She was a little bit of home on what was the most surreal day ever" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"This is me on the red carpet at the Grammys, on the phone to my mum after finding out that I had won my first award" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"With my Grammys!" Photograph: Alex Sturrock

"Celebrating after the Grammys with an In and Out burger. One of the editors of Vogue was my date. We convinced him to have one too" Photograph: Alex Sturrock