Top 30 Peter Steele Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I think I’ve changed a lot as a 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 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’m the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.

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

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

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

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

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