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

That's what David Caruso said to me. We were talking about the whole Emmy thing, and he said that one of the things about awards in this town is that a lot is about the drama - like the drama of the performance. And he said "Your show, The Wire, looks so real, it almost looks like a documentary. And people who aren't artists - a lot of people who vote for this stuff - don't get it."

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

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

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

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.