I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.

I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.

I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.