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
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.
culture european happen languages
I like languages and I like different European cultures, because I happen to be Russian, Polish, Icelandic and Scottish.
black green pants shirts thirteen wearing
I've been wearing black pants and green shirts now for like thirteen years. It works.
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.
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.
american-musician
If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.
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.
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.
hands play people
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.
taken joy deeds
Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.
song sex writing
I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
rap people definitions
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.
confused insecure confusion
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.
pain suffering earth
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.