Top 40 Peter Steele Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.”

— Peter Steele

2. “I was fine, until I was born. And it’s been downhill ever since.”

— Peter Steele

3. “I don’t like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.”

— Peter Steele

4. “Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.”

— Peter Steele

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

— Peter Steele

6. “We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence.”

— Peter Steele

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

— Peter Steele

8. “People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.”

— Peter Steele

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

— Peter Steele

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

— Peter Steele

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

— Peter Steele

12. “I think I’ve changed a lot as a person.”

— Peter Steele

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

— Peter Steele

14. “It’s a funny thing, when you talk to God, you’re religious, but when he talks to you, you’re a psychopath.”

— Peter Steele

15. “Treat each other the way you would like to be treated.”

— Peter Steele

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

— Peter Steele

17. “I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I’m glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today.”

— Peter Steele

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

— Peter Steele

19. “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

20. “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

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

— Peter Steele

22. “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

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

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

— Peter Steele

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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. For me, it’s a frightening thought to go nowhere. I also can’t believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa.”

— Peter Steele

28. “I want to stay away from politics, or else I’ll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.”

— Peter Steele

29. “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

30. “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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31. “I feel that I’ve grown up a little bit and I’m actually ready to settle down.”

— Peter Steele

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

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

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

— Peter Steele

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

— Peter Steele

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

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

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38. “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

39. “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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40. “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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41. “Most bands don’t even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.”

— Peter Steele

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

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

— Peter Steele