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 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.
After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.
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.
Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
Flash people-that's kind of something we did when we were young, kind of daring. We got to write that scene in but it got cut.
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.
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.
I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.
I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.
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 would say our sound is soul pop.
I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.
I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.
It's actually harder to write a fun song.
It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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.
Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
My mom, she's an herbal vitamin freak.
My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
People call me a human jukebox because I know so many songs. Music's always been so huge in my life, just putting the radio on and learning songs.
Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.
Sometimes you are geared to write when you are sad or feeling some certain emotion.
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.
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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.
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.
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.
When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.
Taryn was the December 2007 entry on Stuff magazine’s 2006-07 pin-up calendar.
Taryn was nearly attacked in a bathroom by a woman for accidentally cutting in front of her in line in December 2006.
When Taryn was 12, her family relocated to Cardiff, California.
Taryn's debut role was in the 1999 film drama Speedway Junky. However, her appearance in this film is uncredited.
Taryn attended Orange County High School of the Arts.
Taryn's favorite drink is a tall iced vanilla soy latte with extra ice, from Starbucks
Taryn played a groupie in 1999 TV movie Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story.
Taryn does kickboxing, tae bo, and is a third degree green belt in karate.
Taryn played a prostitute to Terrence Howard’s pimp in the 2005 movie “Hustle and Flow.”
Taryn ranked #33 in Stuff's 103 Sexiest Women in 2003.
Taryn was one of the passengers on the Jet Blue flight that had to make an emergency landing at LAX (September 2005) when it's landing gear failed. She said, "I was praying... I lost my father when I was 14, so I was kind of like, 'Well, hi, Dad. Here I come.'... I feel like I was given a second chance in life.
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