Quotes from Peter Steele

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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