Quotes from Peter Steele


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


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


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. The thing is, I can do anything I want, virtually, within reason, just to see people's reaction.


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.


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


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


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


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 think I've changed a lot as a person.


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


I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.


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


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


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


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


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


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.


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.


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 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.