No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

I absolutely miss dancing. Don't want to do it for a living, I'm getting old, I can't move like I used to. If I had the opportunity to do something on Broadway or a musical, I would jump at the opportunity.

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations

I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.