I’m the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday. – Peter Steele
I want to stay away from politics, or else I’ll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth. – Peter Steele
I don’t really like to play live. I don’t like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious. – Peter Steele
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. – Peter Steele
Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music. – Peter Steele
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. – Peter Steele
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. – Peter Steele
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. – Peter Steele
I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race. – Peter Steele
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. – Peter Steele
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
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. – 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. – Peter Steele
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. – Peter Steele
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. – Peter Steele
As far as humor goes, I’ve always been a very insecure person and I’ve always wanted to be liked. – Peter Steele
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. – Peter Steele
