I love all the pain I have endured because it has also taught me about love.

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.

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

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 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.

The band likes to be different which each album, so that the listener is taken on a fascinating, but different journey each time.

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.

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.

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.

We are resilient beings and need to realize our incredible strengths.

I am a lucky woman to have my loved ones and my experiences to open me up the way it has and inspire my art.

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.

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?

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 love doing covers.

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 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.

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.

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.

I love change.

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 had a really young mom. We lived in, basically... the projects.

My mom was a rock 'n' roll mom.

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.

I don't embrace the yucky stuff.

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

Well, I don't have a father, so there's no daddy being protective of the daughter.

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

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.

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.

I think we push theatrical boundaries.

I want us to have just one of the biggest shows in rock and roll.

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

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

Who cares about how many albums you've sold when you have sold out arenas and you're making money?

When I think of myself, I don't think I'm one of the 'hottest chicks in the world.' I have all kinds of insecurities.

Like, even in our stage performance, it's vulnerable at certain times, it's sad, it's raging... It's not just about being a sex symbol, or being sexy to appease everyone. I'm not about that.

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.

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.

Mystery is great, that's what art is and I think when you can leave your imagination to grow, it's good. I just don't like it if it's super bad because I'm a loving person, I love everybody and human beings. I do have a darkness to me, but I would never do bad things or wish bad things on people, or hurt anything or anyone.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I love everything from Deftones, to Pantera to M83.

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