Jackson Rathbone: Music balances acting

Along with Robert Pattinson, Jackson Rathbone is considered as one of the musically-gifted and inclined actor in the Twilight cast. When he is not acting, Jackson spends his time rocking out with his band, 100 Monkeys.

In an interview with Chart Attack, Jackson revealed that music balances acting and he prefers it to acting since its the best way he can express himself.

“People say that [I'm more excited about music than acting], but I just feel like I have more control over music than I do over, say, playing Jasper in the Twilight series,” Rathbone said late this summer from the set of the third Twilight movie, Eclipse. “Because I get to write the words that I sing. As opposed to as an actor, I wear what people want me to wear, I stand where they want me to stand, I say what they want me to say.

“That’s great — I love being an actor and I’ve been studying to be an actor since I was about 14 years old. But music balances it out. I can’t have one without the other.”

He also relishes the experience with his band, where they play on bars and not being treatedlike some VIP.

“We don’t have a cushy life,” Rathbone says. “We’re not playing arenas and selling them out yet. We play dirty dive bars and love it. Whenever we’re on the road we sleep in two motel room and take turns sleeping on the floors. It’s not all glamourous and it’s great. If it were all glamour, it’d be boring.”

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