Peter Steele Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't Mistake Lack of Talent for Genius

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.