Peter Steele Quotes

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.

I have too much potential for collapse. There's an anonymity that makes people feel safe to participate in hatefulness. I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it. I was like a Jekyll and Hyde. Boxing helped me because I was fighting the anger out. I was knocking guys out.

I don't think punching lockers is the way forward for anyone. There's only going to be one winner there.

I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent.

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt myself.

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.

I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!

I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.