Maria Brink

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I'm actually a really private person, really withdrawn.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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 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.”

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