Taryn Manning

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

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

If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.

I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.

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

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

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.

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.

Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.

I would say our sound is soul pop.

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.

It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.

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.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

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

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.

I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

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

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.