Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

Sometimes you have to say, "No. This is my space." If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

I was coming from a theater background. I had an obsession with classic film and cool, interesting, intelligent television. I didn't really understand the way the mainstream television industry worked. I just thought "The wire is so good that it's going to be a huge hit, and we'll get awards up the yin-yang forever." That's what I thought!

Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.