Quotes By Peter Steele

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.

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

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

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

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.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.