Adele gave Harry Styles the greatest 21st birthday present

If anyone can motivate someone to produce a standout album, it's Adele.

While co-hosting The Breakfast Show with Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw, Harry Styles revealed that Adele had offered up some knowledge — and a present — during the making of his forthcoming album.

But, true to Adele fashion, her wisdom didn't come in the form of traditional advice.

"I've spoken to her a little bit, she knows one of the guys that I wrote it with," Styles said, according to Digital Spy. "But I don't think so much advice, I just like how she does stuff."

Rather, her counsel came in the shape of a gift — and some glorious shade.

"For my 21st she gave me one of her albums 21 and said ‘I did some pretty cool stuff when I was 21, good luck,'" Styles told Grimshaw. “I was like, ‘geez.'"

Despite Adele's snark, Styles admitted he does look up to the award-winning singer. While Styles has seen wild international success with the boy band One Direction, he recently left the group to pursue a solo venture. Adele, on the other hand, holds 15 Grammys along with earning countless industry accolades, and a little advice from the only woman who could topple Lemonade for Album of the Year probably goes a long way (even if that award came with its own controversy).

"I think she leads by example, she's the biggest, she's amazing, she's the best so she should be the biggest. The thing with her is she's a different thing, she's just good at it, I like how she does everything, it looks very nice."

You can catch the full interview on BBC's Radio 1 Friday morning, where Styles will be debuting his new solo debut.

(h/t Digital Spy)