Top 50 Maria Brink Quotes

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 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.

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

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.

I like that weathered, torn look.

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.

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

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 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.

We have integrity.

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!’

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 love conceptual art and artistic expression.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

In This Moment has gone through some big changes.

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

I love all horror movies.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.’

I love doing covers.

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.

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

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.

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’ve got a lot of darkness in me.

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

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

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.