You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
