I Grew Up Studying Music.

In Drama School, My Greatest Strength Was My Range. So My Early Career Was Like That: I Played All Kinds Of Different Characters.

Notes Are Tricky In An Audition, Because I Find, More Often Than Not, My Instinct Is Right. If They Have A Preconceived Notion About The Role And It Goes Against My Instinct, Unless It Makes Sense To Me, It Often Throws Off What I'm Trying To Do. Though Sometimes They Have An Insight That I Don't Because They've Been Living With The Script. I Don't Have One Feeling Or Another About Notes, But It Is Always A Little Bit Of A Red Alert When I Get One In An Audition.

'the Wire' Really Drew On A Lot Of Real-life Situations And Real-life Organizations - It Created Fiction To Make A Social Statement About Reality.

Most Of The Characters I'd Played Were So Different From Me, So Far From Me That I Had To Transform.

When I Was Working On The Wire With The Other Actors, Scene After Scene After Scene, I Felt Like We Were Singing Together. We Were Dancing Together. I'm Like, "this Is The Best Ensemble I've Ever Worked With. I'm Working With These Cats? Holy Mackerel, This Is Heaven."