Maria Brink Quotes

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 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 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.

I think we push theatrical boundaries.

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 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?

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 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.

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

I love doing covers.

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.

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.

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 don’t embrace the yucky stuff.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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 have integrity.

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

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.

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

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

I love everything from Deftones, to Pantera to M83.

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

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.

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.

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

I love all horror movies.

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

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

I love change.

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 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.

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’m actually a really private person, really withdrawn.