Peter Steele Quotes

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Peter Steele

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 4, 1962

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

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

Peter Steele

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.

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

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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 realize my mortality. 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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.

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