Maria Brink

Musician

100 Quotes

I've got a lot of darkness in me.

I love conceptual art and artistic expression.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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