Peter Steele

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“We're the only species who hunts for sport.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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