Peter Steele famous quotes

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

#Thinking #Voice #Opinion

I was fine, until I was born. And it's been downhill ever since.
-- Peter Steele

#Born #Fine

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.
-- Peter Steele

#Softball #Hate #Car

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

#Wine

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

#Hate #Race #Humans

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

#Littles #Settling #Ready

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

#Taken #Joy #Deeds

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
-- Peter Steele

#Fighting #Talking #Drug

I think I've changed a lot as a person
-- Peter Steele

#Thinking #Changed

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

#Thinking #Mind #Of My Mind

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

#Feet #Fifteen #Want

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

#Religious #Funny Things #Psychopath

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence
-- Peter Steele

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

#Tongue #Littles #Drink

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

#Song #Sex #Writing

I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.
-- Peter Steele

#Thinking #Negative #Type

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.
-- Peter Steele

#Song #Believe #Psychosis

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

#Men #Yesterday #Years

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.
-- Peter Steele

#Mother #Believe #Thinking

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.
-- Peter Steele

#Pain #Suffering #Earth

My mother always told me if I really didn't wan to do something, if I was really tired, but if I had helped someone and I really went out of my way for them but I asked nothing for it, that I should donate my energy to the souls in purgatory-meaning that to give my goodness to those who are trapped. This is purgatory/limbo. This is a very Catholic thing that very few people really understand.
-- Peter Steele

#Mother #Tired #People

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

#Way #Treats #Treated

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

#Suicide #Suicidal #Darkness

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

#Song #Writing #Style

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.
-- Peter Steele

#Stress #Band #Kind

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.
-- Peter Steele

#Pain #Disappointment #Cry

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

#Humor #Insecure #Insecurity

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.
-- Peter Steele

#People #Sometimes #Social

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.
-- Peter Steele

#Alcohol #Fans #Bigs

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

#Song #Writing #Wrists

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

#Feelings

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.
-- Peter Steele

#Running #Trying #Input

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

#Rap #People #Definitions

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.
-- Peter Steele

#Mother #Moving #Iceland

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

#Labels #Contracts

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.
-- Peter Steele

#Space #Southern #Intimate

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.
-- Peter Steele

#Confused #Insecure #Confusion

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

#Different #Certain #Type

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

#Play #Self #Conscious

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

#Different #Type

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.
-- Peter Steele

#Song #Air #Topics

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

#Labels #Contracts #Fulfilled

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

#Years #Lasts #Months

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

#Black #Lines #Band

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

#People #