Anytime I do, I feel like it's slow suicide." - Toazted, 2007 On drug and alcohol dependency: "I'm no angel, and from time to time I do fall off. Video of Type O Negative - Love You To Death "Ultimately, I would like to have sex with someone I love, but that doesn't always have to be the case." - Headbanger's Ball, 1995
I live for the day. I seize the day." - Jerry Springer1995 "I don't base my life upon fear about what might happen tomorrow. On being banned from a Netherlands show: "I don't like the idea of being branded a Nazi, and it's funny because back in the States, they call us Communists because we have long hair." - Dutch interview, 1991 His wry genius lives on, however - read on for some of his best quotes from throughout the years. I also can't believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa." Tragically, he stepped into the hereafter in 2010 at the age of 48, dying of heart failure. He spoke of his return to faith in his final years, saying once, "For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere. The latter days of Steele's life saw him open up about his depression and struggles with mental illness even more, especially as he fought his tendencies toward addiction to cocaine and alcohol. It's a rare charm one must possess to prevent that brand of flirtatious behavior from crossing into creepy territory, but the raven-haired crooner worked this dark magic on nearly every female he came across. This trait is clear when watching clips of Steele and female interviewers, whom he couldn't resist throwing tempting looks and bold innuendo toward.
"It felt like I had five extra mothers," he said in one of his final interviews, and that unique immersion into the feminine mystique left him with a special knack for approaching, talking to and relating to women. Steele's lyrics were often deeply personal and, even with his signature sense of sarcastic humor, acted as a window into what plagued the frontman: death, love, addiction and betrayal.īorn in Brooklyn to a Roman Catholic family, Steele was the youngest of six children and the only boy, which gave him a special perspective on the lives of women. Towering Type O Negative singer and bassist Peter Steele may be remembered as a brazenly sexual libertine, but just under his horny, brooding exterior was a sensitive lover who fell hard and suffered harder when it all fell apart.