I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.
If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.
I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.
Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.
Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.
For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do.