Quotes from Peter Steele

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 think I've changed a lot as a person.

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.

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

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

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

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

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