Tobias Forge Quotes

Tobias Forge

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 3, 1981

My mom is very liberal. She has never been religious... spiritual but not religious.

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At the end of the day, one of the biggest misconceptions of Ghost is that it's just about the devil. It's always been about mankind and living.

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Once you get people's attention, you have a greater responsibility to tell them something of value.

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When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

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So many people have opinions based not on fact but spite.

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Let's just say that I've spent a lot of time being not very successful.

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As a young teen, Satan and the idea of some sort of world that you could be in touch with that could empower you was very much the symbol for freedom.

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The music comes first. Final lyrics are usually written very close to recording the vocals.

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I've liked Kiss from when I was three years old. I've seen them, the real deal, with all the original members when they came back in '96 and all that, and that's fine.

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I was told before that one of the hardest jumps to do, painlessly, is the one from playing clubs into playing arenas. I am completely aware of that now.

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There are many artists that I know exactly where they are born and what their names are and where they live, which are still very, sort of, hidden. Even Nick Cave, who has a film about himself nowadays, is still someone who I would claim to be utterly enigmatic.

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Ghost has always been about make-believe.

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I am not a big artist myself. I am, I guess, a somewhat successful songwriter now, but I think that my value is Ghost and my writing via Ghost.

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The problem with religious doctrine, as with politics, because of its ability to give people authority, it has a tendency to attract people that want authority for all the wrong reasons, and that is what it has done across all time.

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From my point of view, a lot of the things that we've done over our entire career have always been a big failure because it was never the way that I planned it. But then there's always upsides with it that turn out to be better or greater than the original plan.

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There are people who just love to destroy other people. It saddens me to admit that, I think, at whatever state of human civilisation we arrive at, the will to destroy other people is something that is innate in some people.

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The belief in something bigger and supernatural is not the same thing as linear religion.

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Most bands that don't want to become big at all, they don't play. If you don't want to be known, if you don't want to make it, don't play. That's the easiest way not to do it.

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My brother gave me my first records when I was about 3 or 4 years old, because he bought a lot of records. And he was very nice because he gave me the records he thought I'd like more.

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I've been in lots of situations in my life where I've managed to turn pain into growing pains.

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