If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.

I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging ... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic.

The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

Magic likes a good tragedy, too.

There's something about when humanity goes from hoping they get lucky in finding something fermented to doing it on purpose. They don't understand what they've done until the late 1800s, but they know if they combine things in a certain way, they'll get something magic.

Videos are tricky because stuff sounds amazing on paper and it seems like it's going to be this mystical experience and you're going to look back and go, "Wow, that was magic." But more times than not, it doesn't end up that way, so I never know what I'm going to get.

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

The magic and stuff was all in conjunction with the story of the pyramids. You can't just do that kind of thing if it doesn't make sense, tell a story. That was all part of our Afro-centric consciousness.