Brian Tyree Henry

Music has always been a part of my life, and it helps me a lot because it speaks for me when I can't speak for myself. ”

The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money or the names. It's all about reflecting my life and my art. ”

Atlanta, in itself, is its own living, breathing thing. ”

Atlanta' is really trying to put that out there: these are just the lives of these people in this city, and this city is its own breathing, living thing, too. So how do you navigate through life, especially with dreams and aspirations in a world that tells you that you don't deserve to have them. ”

I'm very grateful, first of all, for my friends and my family because they keep me grounded, and they make sure I'm taking care of myself and that I'm keeping my sanity about me. ”

I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there. ”

Atlanta's the hub of black culture, and it's OK to be you there - it's the city that really shaped me to be who I am. ”

On top of trying to find my way in this business and losing my mother and trying to figure out what family meant to me and everything - 2016, there was a lot of anger from me and a lot of anger all around. I think the hardest part was to really realize that all these things, it's worth it. ”

I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child. ”

I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure. ”