Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Maria Brink

I guess the men who are meant to be a part of my life won't be intimidated by me and will be stronger. There's a specific breed that won't be afraid.

I think it really comes down to, it doesn't matter if it's a girl or man, it's about if you have something to say, it's about the music, you know?

If people buy into the band, you'll always have tour that sells and you'll always have that diehard base.

I've got a lot of darkness in me.

We didn't want it to end up in discussions where we would talk about whether this song needed to be more metal, whether I needed to scream more in that song or whether I shouldn't sing quite as much in those songs because metalheads wouldn't like that.

The Maria, what I look like in real life and how I am, I'm a super flower child. I wear all flower child '60s dresses.

I love being theatrical, we love electronics in our music, and we're not afraid to put electronics on my voice and do all these fun things.

I love change.

I think we push theatrical boundaries.

Some people, they do just go out there and rock, and it's perfect in that way, 'cause that's what's, I guess, natural to them.

My mom was a rock 'n' roll mom.

It is so scary to break in new shoes on stage. It makes me wonder, how does Beyonce do it, dance in high heels on stage? I am like 'Whoa!'

I don't embrace the yucky stuff.

Who cares about how many albums you've sold when you have sold out arenas and you're making money?

I get it from everything - anything that's theatrical, watching the other bands, looking up Vegas shows online... anything that can just inspire me. I'm always searching for inspiration.

I don't know what genre you would put us into, and I'm always telling people that. When I'm trying to explain In This Moment's sound to them, all I can say is that its diverse-sounding, with influences such as metalcore's breakdowns, metal in general and some melodic rock.

My mom always supports me in whatever it is that I do, and she loves me.

We got to play Madison Square Garden before. I mean, that was like a dream. There is something about the lights and the huge arenas that is really special, but nothing can quite compare to those intimate shows where it's sold out, and it's a thousand people.

Mystery is great, that's what art is and I think when you can leave your imagination to grow, it's good. I just don't like it if it's super bad because I'm a loving person, I love everybody and human beings. I do have a darkness to me, but I would never do bad things or wish bad things on people, or hurt anything or anyone.

I will not bow down to others' perceptions of me; I will only rise in the name of art, love and music.

I'm a Sagittarius and I love adventure and new beginnings, new experiences, because it makes me feel like I'm living.

We really like to express ourselves artistically with all of the visuals and the theatrical side. It all plays a really important part to us.

I think that all of the deep, intense things, a lot of different abuse, and all kinds of crazy stuff - I think it made me really strong and it made me learn how to appreciate every day, appreciate people in my life, so it's just another good example of sometimes bad things make us appreciate the beautiful every day.

Black Widow' is definitely the darker part of me. This album is about finding the weakness inside and turning it into strength. It's about being reborn, setting yourself free and realizing the balance in everything - the dark and the light.

Black Widow' is a metaphor for this innocent young girl who gets infected with life, traumas, experiences, and the balance of light and darkness. She becomes this poised and powerful creature. That's the album.

I am such a fiery woman and I am a real passionate woman and I get so much stuff built up inside of me that I can release all that on stage, and I kind of counterbalance it with the normal Maria that I am because with the real calming, natural kind of earthy spirit stuff and it kind of balances me out so I don't go too crazy.

When I play piano by myself and sing, something really special happens. I connect to something that I love.

I don't think we're metalcore. To me, metalcore is more like hardcore-influenced metal, with lots of breakdowns. I think we're a lot more diverse sounding than that.

In the metal world, if you're using a wireless mic... I was so scared to do that. I'm, like, 'They're gonna boo me in the beginning.'

I'm actually a really private person, really withdrawn.

We had a demo recorded that we made available on our MySpace site, and that was quite successful for us too, but not on the same level as 'Beautiful Tragedy.'

World In Flames' is pretty powerful to me, it's about waking up in the middle of the night, the whole world has ignited into flames, and I'm there alone. And it's kind of like a fear of dying alone and the whole world is burning.

Well, I don't have a father, so there's no daddy being protective of the daughter.

I wear like lip gloss and my hair is always really natural, and I'm a really kind of natural free spirit in my everyday life who has crystals and I burn sage, and I think I find a lot of calming beauty in that stuff.

I love doing covers.

It can't just be about being sexy. It has to have all the emotions involved, I think, on the album and in the live show. Because if you do all sex, you lose all of the other beautiful things that should be a part of it... And just being sexy will get you nowhere.

I had a really young mom. We lived in, basically... the projects.

I love my mom. I think my mom is responsible for me loving music and being in music because she subjected it to me at such a young age.

We always wanted to have this big show. So we just kind of started doing little things, like building our own little props, and starting to put on a show. And we just started seeing the response, and it felt amazing to us, and then I fell in love with it.

I do tend to fall to the dark side of things visually sometimes.

Like, even in our stage performance, it's vulnerable at certain times, it's sad, it's raging... It's not just about being a sex symbol, or being sexy to appease everyone. I'm not about that.

The core of everything always has to be the music. If someone's in the dark and can't see what we look like, you still want that music to make them feel like something and make them have that connection.

You could be the sexiest woman in the world, and if you can't sing, if you're not an artist and you can't create a show, you can't have power in front of a crowd, you're gonna crash and burn.

People think they know who I am, but they don't.

When I think of myself, I don't think I'm one of the 'hottest chicks in the world.' I have all kinds of insecurities.

Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance is my favorite singer as a singer - so I'm really widely spread open with music choices.

Some people go to the gym and some people have different ways that they express themselves, and I do all mine through my music.

My mom is a total free-spirited hippie flower child. Always has been.

I want us to have just one of the biggest shows in rock and roll.

In This Moment has gone through some big changes.

You know, there's so many great bands out there, visual bands, that we have to do something that makes us individual, and makes us stick out from everybody else, and something that is even bigger than just the music.

When you write music that you are very passionate about, being able to bring the visual aspect of it alive with the music is what ties everything together.

Instead of yelling and screaming or losing myself all the time, I release everything in my music, and that's kind of how I expel my demons, as you would say.

My Maria on stage definitely is a real natural part of who I am, but obviously I can't walk around as that girl. You know what I mean? It's definitely an alter ego, but it is part of who I am, it is who I am, it is my life.

Everyone has their own right to their own point of view and everyone has their own perception of everything and everyone doesn't have to love me, obviously, but I just think that it's too much when people say that they want you to die and it can be so dark and mean.

We are resilient beings and need to realize our incredible strengths.

I actually rarely ever get hit on. Isn't that funny? People think I do, but I actually don't.

I think it's always beautiful to take hate in some form and turn it into something beautiful.

The numbers in women in rock 'n' roll and metal are pretty much growing a lot, which is a great thing.

I love conceptual art and artistic expression.