Peter Steele

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

“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 real...”

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

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

“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 geno...”

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

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

“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...”

“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 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 s...”

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

“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 function...”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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