Peter Steele Quotes

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Peter Steele

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 4, 1962

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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I think I've changed a lot as a person.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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