Peter Steele Quotes

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!

Music stops you from thinking.

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

It's not like I force myself to think of sad things, but... it's more that I make music because it makes me happy.

I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.

I know that when I get down or feel alone or depressed, I make music, and it makes me happy.

Music became a healer for me.