Peter Steele Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

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

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

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

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

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

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.