“I have been trying to figure out, from a legal point of view, can you own a word? So far all the lawyers have told me, ‘No’. I’ve tried… but the association is fabulous!”
He added that the two ‘will meet’ - hopefully for a duet - at some point, saying: “When she’s on tour I’ll catch her backstage.”
Adele has been caught up in another plagiarism row recently, with some fans accusing her of copying Kurdish artist Ahmet Kaya’s 1985 song Acilara Tutunmak in her ‘25′ album track ‘Million Years Ago’.