Daveed Diggs

That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.

I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have.

I felt so loved and taken care of, and that's a huge part of the reason I'm able to do what I do.

Daveed Diggs is a very nervous person.

Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels.

I love that 'Black-ish' is a pretty traditional sitcom, structurally. It functions like the sitcoms from the '80s and '90s that I grew up with.

I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion.

Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don't sample drums. We create all our own sounds. I don't speak in the first person. We come from a background of experimental music like John Cage... Philip Glass.

I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life.

Some people get a Broadway show, and that's their end game, and they want to sit there for as long as possible. And some people have other things they want to do with their life.

Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.

The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It's a real change you can effect in somebody's life every day.