Peter Steele
Peter Steele
Petrus Thomas Ratajczyk, better known by his stage name Peter Steele, was the lead singer, bassist and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative. Before forming Type O Negative, he had created the metal group Fallout and the thrash band Carnivore...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMetal Singer
Date of Birth4 January 1962
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
black green pants shirts thirteen wearing
I've been wearing black pants and green shirts now for like thirteen years. It works.
came guys issue signings
We did a lot of in-store signings around that time, and occasionally guys came up with that issue of Playgirl and wanted me to sign the centerfold.
album good matter musical
I think for the most part it really doesn't matter how good an album is; I think it really comes down to musical climate.
band considered fortunate songs
We've been fortunate that we could choose, from all the songs I'd written, those that the band considered to be the best.
tony
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.
execute love wrote
When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.
american-musician
If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.
against american-musician cry okay people
I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.
dumped goth metal mind
If we're going to be dumped into, say, goth metal or something like that, I really don't mind being called that.
sports
We're the only species who hunts for sport.
dyed elvis gonna wanna wrinkled
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.
american-musician people
So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.
atheists change crisis death hoping realize start time
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.
human million
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.