Loneliness Was Tough, The Toughest Role You

My Sex Drive Has Gone Down So Much Since I've Stopped Doing Coke. I Was One Of The Few People That, When I Did Coke, I Had An Enormous Sex Drive. I Still Have A Healthy Sex Life Today, But It's Not So Important.

I Just Think You Shouldn't Expect People To Pay Money To See Someone Sing Live And Then Lip-synch.

It Took A Child. It Took A Child With A Blood Transfusion Not Only To Wake Me Up, But To Wake America Up, Basically. I Mean, I Read About His Plight In A Doctor's Office In New York In A Magazine. I Was So Outraged About It That I Contacted The Family. We Became Friends. I Helped Them Move To Another Place In Indiana. And We Became Constant Friends.

When Your Persona Begins To Take Over Your Music And Becomes More Important, You Enter A Dangerous Place. Once You Have People Around You Who Don't Question You, You're In A Dangerous Place.

And The Stigma Hasn't Really Changed That Much In 31 Years. You Are Still Getting People - It's A Shame-based Disease. It's Based On Sexual Transmission. And It's Still Shame-based. And Until People Feel Strong Enough And Feel Loved Enough To Actually Open Up And Say, Listen, I'm Hiv-positive, Then We Are Facing An Uphill Battle.