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October Rust is almost entirely about women. How come it’s such a different album than Bloody Kisses?

Peter: I can say a few things about it. Firstly: as a songwriter to this band it's hard for me to be objective about the final result. I always write my songs through a fixed line, a formula... that’s really the only thing I pay attention to. But, returning to women. I know people who think I'm exploiting women in my music. But, what’s wrong with writing songs about something you love? You should get to talk to some female Type O Negative fans; I don't think they'll feel exploited, rather they feel honored for my worshipping their gender.

The lyrics of October Rust are quite passionate. Are you overdoing it, or do you really see women like that?

Peter: When I'm with a woman, I like to be of her service with anything she wants. The role of man in this world is chiefly to serve women. Men used to be good for three things: to care for women, to protect, and for procreation, of course. Nowadays women don’t need men anymore to care for them, and as regards protection, well this is also unnecessary since we have laws. And with artificial insemination [available], we’re not necessary for the act. Men have really become redundant. Once we were good for making babies and making war, now all that’s left is making war.

So, men are inferior to women.

Peter: Every life form has a right to live and, in that respect, we are all equal. But as far as the usefulness of those life forms during their lives is concerned, that is the big difference. I don't have a lot of male friends. I just prefer the company of women. Maybe because I grew up with five older sisters.

~Peter Steele~ OOR Magazine Interview, translated from Dutch into English.

[Unfortunately, some of Peter's sarcasm and humor is lost in translation here]

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Livewire Magazine Interview 1997

PETER: "Some of the things that I've done in the past, I can't even listen to anymore. That old Carnivore stuff, I just can't believe. I was such a different person then. I've changed a lot. Anything that anyone might deem sacred, Carnivore attacked. Politics, religion, sexuality, we just went for it. There was a boomerang effect which we had to pay for with Type O and I feel bad about that because these guys had to share the blame with me and they had nothing to do with it. Fortunately, we have overcome those problems. The best revenge is good living."

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"Nine Inch Nails liked us a lot. Trent Reznor is a great guy, but their audience sucks. Ninety percent of them hated us, and the other ten percent that showed some kind of support were automatically booed into submission or somehow subdued. So, for two weeks, every night, forty-five minutes on stage, I just became Andrew Dice Clay. I would pick somebody out of the audience that was throwing something or yeling and being an asshole, and I would have direct verbal contact with these people.

The rest of the band was standing around twiddling their thumbs and shuffling their shoes, and I'm jumping into the audience and fighting with people. There were one or two times where I actually saw somebody wing something -- this one guy, I don't know how he did it without cutting himself, but he had the serrated top of a can, like a catfood can, and so you have this thing like a little saw blade winged at you. I ran to the side of the stage and jumped off, I'm making my way through the crowd as this guy's heading back, and there were people taking shots at me as I was going after this guy! But I wanted him, and then security caught up to me first -- they didn't do anything to me, but they let him get away. lt's just a scene I'd rather forget."

~Peter Steele~ Seconds Magazine 1995

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Interviewer: Was there an idea behind the new album [Dead Again] that you're trying to get across?

Peter: "The idea was to alleviate poverty."

Interviewer: [laughs] How's that working out for you?

Peter: "I'm a hundredaire."

Interviewer: But I'm sure you're doing ok, you guys mostly make your money off the concerts?

Peter: "Actually, I like to let people in for free but charge them to get out. Readmission. I'll have some mustard gas go off and say, 'Give me all your money, your cute girlfriends, and you may leave'."

Interviewer: I bet you get some really cute girls at your shows.

Peter: "There are always cute girls at our shows. But I'm getting old and disgusting, so it doesn't matter."

~Peter Steele~ Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, 2007

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"I’ve always been a very insecure person and I’ve always wanted to be liked. I found that one way to do that was to make people laugh, even if it was at the expense of myself. If they weren’t laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it’s better than nothing. I guess having been thinking this way for forty-one years now, it just kind of comes naturally to attempt to instill humor wherever possible."

~Peter Steele~ October 21, 2003, interview with Gail Worley

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"He made everybody feel important. Everybody was important and he made them feel that way. He wouldn’t sit down and talk about himself. He’d ask, “How are you doing? What kind of jobs are you doing?” and “Oh wow, I used to do that kind of work” or “I know somebody who does that; that’s a hard job to do.” That’s the kind of person that he was." Pat Ratajczyk Rowan

April 12th 2011, Metal Sucks Interview

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LW: Do you like clubs better because of the closeness to the fans?

Steele: "Personally, I do. I think that as far as sound goes, it sounds a lot better. Most of these large places that we play, the sound just bounces everywhere. Large arenas are not designed for sound. When we play small places like this, it's easier to meet the fans and talk with them, and see what they think. That's important. We like to show people that we remember that we're human, and thank them for coming out to see us. They are responsible for our success."

Peter Steele ~ Livewire interview 1997

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some cool type o art i found on pinterest💚🖤

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PIT: So then working on music in the studio is most important to you now, right?

Peter: Yeah, because I like to write all the parts, work out the harmonies... I like to really sit down and think about these things, and to actually put them on tape. I like to have control over the entire project."

PIT: And you even did the design for the packaging as well.

Peter: "I like to do the whole concept. It's kind of my little baby, my little abortion."

PIT: Did you have any problems with the front cover artwork for Slow, Deep and Hard?"

Peter: "Only the fact that I wanted to make it slightly more blatant and the record company wanted to make it slightly more subdued. So we settled onwhere it is now. On the actual cover, there was no doubt about what was going on there - she was getting it and gettin' it good! But I look at this [the cover that was released] as some kind of post modern artwork. Let's let the pieces fall where they may and call it art and get paid $10,000 for it. Which is great, because then I can throw paint cans off a roof, they can land on a canvas, and I can bring to a museum and sell it. I won't even have to go on tour anymore."

~Peter Steele~ PIT Magazine 1992

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[Being asked about being a pyromaniac]

Peter: Well, actually, the correct title is not pyromaniac, it's called pyrolagnia... What it means is 'fire lust.' It's like a sexual response to something that should not really be sexual."

"I have only heard about like a handful of people who were, I'm not going to say afflicted, but who had the same reaction to fire as I do, so I guess it's pretty abnormal... but I guess as long as it doesn't hurt anyone it really doesn't make a difference. I mean I'm not going down and burning apartment buildings or old people or anything like that."

Interview 1999

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“Once an addict always an addict, you know. I have five cats that I love very much, and part of what keeps me under control is that I don’t want to die and leave them starving. I’m not kidding.”

Peter Steele, Metal Hammer, 2008

**all these photos belong to others, including Peter's family and friends. All credit and copyrights to them!**

If you know the names of the other cats, let me know. I know he had cats named Grizzelda and Weena, but have no idea what they looked like.