I read Quincy Jones' autobiography and that just blew my mind. As both a human being and a record producer, he really opened my mind to things. He talked about so many things, one of them being 'God's divining rod'. He knows he's on the right track when he gets goosebumps - he calls it God's diving rod. He's like, 'I don't need to play it for anybody, and I don't need to bounce it off anybody to find out what they think'. It's the equivalent of gut instinct for me. I know that feeling. When a new song is happening and starting to click, and you know it's going to stick, I get ecstatic. It's like a drug. There's a chemical reaction inside my body where I get really hyper and euphoric. And after that, it's bulletproof for me - no one can take that away.
