Quotes from Taryn Manning

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

I'm not a part of any organized practices, but I believe heavily on love and the universe and what you give is what you get.

Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from the madness, but a part of it too.

Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.

The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.

I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.

Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.

I'm pretty hard on myself. Every now and again I'll go on my IMDB or update my resume and I'm like, "man, I've done a lot of work."

Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.

There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.