I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with...

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

I tend to stay away from the comics.

I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.