Peter Steele

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.”

“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.”

“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 genocidal.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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