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 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.

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 love doing covers.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I know I am more on the sexual side in terms of my appearance, which is something that the metal world is not used to. But I am comfortable with it. It's how I express my art, and myself.

I've got a lot of darkness in me.

I like that weathered, torn look.

In the metal world, if you're using a wireless mic... I was so scared to do that. I'm, like, 'They're gonna boo me in the beginning.'