A biography for Maria Brinkhasn’t been written yet.
“We're not partying out on the road, but we still have fun.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There is something magical about being able to feel somebody. And that is something that has always moved me with music.”
“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 love change.”
“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.”
“Well, I don't have a father, so there's no daddy being protective of the daughter.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When I play piano by myself and sing, something really special happens. I connect to something that I love.”
“I love doing covers.”
“I love all horror movies.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've got a lot of darkness in me.”
“Instead of yelling and screaming or losing myself all the time, I release everything in my music, and that's kind of how I expel my demons, as you would say.”
“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.”
“You have to hustle and work hard, but we have been fortunate with big crowds and having a good time.”