When You're In A High-stress Situation, Dynamics

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.

What's Interesting Is, Most Of The People Who Are Fans Of The The Wire Who Black People Or Cops... Most Of The People In The Industry Are The Crew: Writers, Actors And Directors. And So They Understand What It Is That We Do, So They Think, "wow, What A Incredible Group Of Amazing Actors." It's Funny, I Think There Are A Couple Of Reasons Why We Have Never Gotten Any Nomination For Anything Except For Writing.

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.

Art Is Art, And Journalism Is Journalism.

Notes Are Tricky In An Audition, Because I Find, More Often Than Not, My Instinct Is Right. If They Have A Preconceived Notion About The Role And It Goes Against My Instinct, Unless It Makes Sense To Me, It Often Throws Off What I'm Trying To Do. Though Sometimes They Have An Insight That I Don't Because They've Been Living With The Script. I Don't Have One Feeling Or Another About Notes, But It Is Always A Little Bit Of A Red Alert When I Get One In An Audition.