Quotes from Maria Brink

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

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're not partying out on the road, but we still have fun.

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.

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.

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 think I'd have to say that 'The Shining' is my scariest movie ever.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I love conceptual art and artistic expression.

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 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.

I like that weathered, torn look.

I love doing covers.

You could be the sexiest woman in the world, and if you can't sing, if you're not an artist and you can't create a show, you can't have power in front of a crowd, you're gonna crash and burn.

I've said it before: just being a pretty face ain't going to get you that far. It has to be about whatever the art behind it is and what the message is and what the music is, the purpose.

I've got a lot of darkness in me.

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

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