Peter Steele Quotes

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

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

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

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.

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

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.

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

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

I think I've changed a lot as a person

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

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

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

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