I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.

But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].

If people are encouraged to come out and say they're HIV-positive and they're given their treatments, then obviously, the people who are marginalized - like intravenous drug users, prisoners, people are made to feel less-than - if they're given the support of the government, and they're given the funding, then it's going to help solve the spread of AIDS and HIV in America.

I was never told a thing about sex. So I was very naive, as were my friends as well. But I - me so especially.

I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.