Peter Steele Quotations

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone.

I'm a 'specist.' I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race. I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man.

I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God.

So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.

I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth

To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you're like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is that?' So at some point, I'm going to have to stop doing this. It's gonna look ridiculous. I don't wanna look like Elvis Presley at 60 years old.

I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

So, I simply switched over to wine because it was not carbonated.

There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

I find that different types of music are good for certain activities.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

I also like to eat very much, so I like all different types of foods.

If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.

When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.

I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction.

I think I've changed a lot as a person

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.

If we're going to be dumped into, say, goth metal or something like that, I really don't mind being called that.

I think for the most part it really doesn't matter how good an album is; I think it really comes down to musical climate.

It became more and more difficult after drinking beer, or while drinking beer on stage, to execute vocals in between burps.

We've been fortunate that we could choose, from all the songs I'd written, those that the band considered to be the best.

I've been wearing black pants and green shirts now for like thirteen years. It works.

We did a lot of in-store signings around that time, and occasionally guys came up with that issue of Playgirl and wanted me to sign the centerfold.

I like languages and I like different European cultures, because I happen to be Russian, Polish, Icelandic and Scottish.

Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.

People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.

It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath.

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence

I was fine, until I was born. And it's been downhill ever since.

I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I'm glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today.

Some people say I'm a pussy. I say, you are what you eat.

Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.

My mother always told me if I really didn't wan to do something, if I was really tired, but if I had helped someone and I really went out of my way for them but I asked nothing for it, that I should donate my energy to the souls in purgatory-meaning that to give my goodness to those who are trapped. This is purgatory/limbo. This is a very Catholic thing that very few people really understand.

And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere. I also can't believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa.

I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.

Treat each other the way you would like to be treated.