Peter Steele quotes:

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 I've changed a lot as a person.

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

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

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

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

I think I've changed a lot as a person

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

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

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

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

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence

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

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