Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Maria Brink - Page 2

Embrace who you are, and if people don't understand you, that's their own problem, that's their own insecurities. They're really the one with the problem - the people who are judging you and saying negative things to you, they are really the people with the problem, not you at all.

I love everything from Deftones, to Pantera to M83.

We have integrity.

I will buy sun dresses that I rip, burn and distress and then sew them back together.

With rock 'n' roll, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, the Runaways, there was always that feminine spirit.

I don't believe people who think dreams aren't reality nor will they ever be. We follow that theory of making it a reality.

My first tattoo was for my son, just a little infinity symbol. Because every time we go apart, we stay together in infinity, so it's a tiny infinity symbol.

We're not partying out on the road, but we still have fun.

Well, I have definitely had a very intense life and upbringing to say the least. I did have a beautiful young mom who loved me as much as she could but I still had to deal with all forms of abuse and hardships.

I am a lucky woman to have my loved ones and my experiences to open me up the way it has and inspire my art.

My favorite moment in our In This Moment set is when I go out by myself to play a song on the piano.

I got to see Black Sabbath, Pantera and Deftones together, I remember that blew my mind completely.

Seriously, my grandma's like the oldest lady on ShipRocked every year. My grandma's crazy.

I knew I wanted to be a singer at 5 years old! It just took me a few more years to truly manifest my dream into reality.

There is something magical about being able to feel somebody. And that is something that has always moved me with music.

If you see somebody getting bullied, step in, be the difference. Make the difference.

All of us in the band are huge Queensryche fans, and Geoff Tate is one of the best lead singers in the business.

I express myself as an artist in different ways.

There's only rules if you place rules on yourself.

The band likes to be different which each album, so that the listener is taken on a fascinating, but different journey each time.

I completely, 100 percent got bullied, and I'd still stick up for myself and try to be strong, but it was always so deeply painful.

What kids out there who are getting bullied need to know is that it's not OK. There's a lot of reach-out programs, people that you can talk to, people that can help you figure out how to get an answer to the problem.

I think I'd have to say that 'The Shining' is my scariest movie ever.

People think that once a band is 'big' that they make a ton of money, but that's not true. It's hard to make money. It's financially a hard business until you hit gold. However, that only makes you strive toward your goal more and work harder because of it.

I'm such a hippie.

You have to hustle and work hard, but we have been fortunate with big crowds and having a good time.

I felt like we used to hold ourselves in a box based on fear. Will the metal community accept us. Is this heavy enough? Is this not heavy enough?

We have done so many tours and played for so many crowds. We know who we are.

I did the underground scene growing up. I lived in Albany, New York so I'd go see Stigmata, Hatebreed, Murphy's Law so I was in that whole scene.

I've said it before: just being a pretty face ain't going to get you that far. It has to be about whatever the art behind it is and what the message is and what the music is, the purpose.

I know I am more on the sexual side in terms of my appearance, which is something that the metal world is not used to. But I am comfortable with it. It's how I express my art, and myself.

You know, we're a hard working band but we don't ever take it for granted.

I love all the pain I have endured because it has also taught me about love.

I really try to find inspiration in all band's I've toured with because everyone's up there doing their own thing and captivating in different forms.

I like that weathered, torn look.

I love all horror movies.

We are normally involved in Ozzfest and heavier tours. We love all the tours we've done, but I always thought it'd be cool to do Warped, since a lot of these kids are young girls.

I struggled with kind of fighting with the inner illnesses within myself where my psychological madness and I have always kind of struggled with different disorders and mental things and so the biggest thing that I was kind of always ashamed of or being embarrassed of was kind of that.

We're professionals, and we know we want to write.

We all have these dreams of everything we want to do and accomplish. It's happening for us. We're living it - doing these concerts, magazines, traveling the world.