Peter Steele

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

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.