Peter Steele Quotes

I think I'll always base myself out of Toronto. I don't have any plans to move to L.A.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids... my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

If you look at only one aspect of life [taxes], maybe you would prefer living elsewhere.

Too many families know what it's like to have to choose between providing care for a family member and keeping their job.

I got people to take care of: my mom, my dad, my grandma, my aunties.

I cannot just do things without thinking. I have a wife and daughter to think of at all times now.

I could have moved anywhere I wanted to. But for family reasons, I stayed in the Midwest.

I have always managed to combine my family life and my career, but there came a point when I had to choose between a career in America and my family. I chose my family.

Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.

There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of spirit that makes you think of Thoreau along with a commitment as fierce as that of Pablo Neruda.

There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls are needed to take care of younger siblings. It turns out that's not really true.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

In a way, it's a great thing that I have the opportunity to stand at the crossroads of Los Angeles and Indianapolis, and stay right here, ... People say that reality is in the footsteps, and not the words. That, as much as anybody, gives you a chance to show your sincerity and commitment, and what you're all about as far as leaving a legacy.

Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

Everything depends very much on who you are, what your values are, what your commitments are, what circumstances you live in and what options you're willing to undertake, and that determines what you ought to be doing.

The most important thing is that I'm in a position to take care of my family and take care of my moms, man. I can take care of myself now and my mom is able to just worry about herself and do what she wants to do.

Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love.