Tobias Forge Quotes

Tobias Forge

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 3, 1981

My first records were KISS's 'Love Gun,' Twisted Sister's 'Stay Hungry,' and Motley Crue's 'Shout at the Devil.' That had immense influence on me.

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I sort of found King Diamond in second grade, but I didn't become a devoted Satanist until a few years later, but that was very much part of my adolescence as well.

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Not only did we read a lot at home, we also watched a lot of films. So I had already seen a lot of films that were about the crucifixion and the temptation of Christ, like Bible history and the Ten Commandments - stuff like that.

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I'm a band dictator.

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Even in my hometown of Linkoping where I grew up... the church we had was very lavish - very boasty. So it ticked most of the boxes of big, imposing Christianity. And I love being there if I'm in town... because it's just this haunting place.

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I grew up in Sweden. It's a profoundly Americanized country. We have a strong tradition of Americana and always had non-dubbed American television, and embracing American culture a lot, so I always knew that I wanted to go to America.

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Have I ever had dance lessons? I'm mobile, but not nearly as much as our promotional videos lead people to believe.

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I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.

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You want to be as successful as possible. You wanna have the strongest legs to stand on as possible for every album that you're doing.

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I don't want to do Ghost as a normal, unmasked band standing around in, like, denim jackets. That was never the plan, regardless of whether people knew who I was or what size shoe I wear.

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If you've followed us from when we started playing live in October 2010, you will notice that there has been numerous changes over the years.

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It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a curse.

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I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

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I was 29 when we sort of broke through with Ghost.

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When you're not successful as a musician, you are oftentimes unemployed.

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I've had a very, very forgiving and a very, very supportive mother who never really gave me a hard time for going in and out of slackerdom.

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By sheer luck, we did our first tour of America as a headlining act.

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I come from a home that had a lot of music played in general.

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I'm a big fan of a lot of prog music. As a record collector as well, I won't throw anybody or any band under the bus, but a lot of the records are fun to collect, are not necessarily very good. There are a lot of prog bands out there that it's a really cool record, but it's, like, not really there.

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I've always been very - for lack of a better phrase - hit-seeking, hit-driven.

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