When you're not successful as a musician, you are oftentimes unemployed. — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
The music comes first. Final lyrics are usually written very close to recording the vocals. — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
I wasn't letting people in with the music writing process, and for a long time, I thought I was hard to work… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
A band which plays songs such as 'Death Knell' or 'Prime Mover' can't just stand on the stage with a shirt and… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
I prefer catchy, passionate, temperamental music. And as an upside of that, Ghost's repertoire has, over the years, been piqued by a… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
Technically, a Ghost song could just be piano and vocals, but it could also be full, pounding, heavy-thrashing hard rock. — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of a lot of prog music. As a record collector as well, I won't throw anybody or any… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
In grade one and two, I was definitely into heavy metal and Satanic rock music, bands that had attributes that were quote-unquote… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
As long as I've been doing Ghost, at least, I've been very keen on maintaining not necessarily an anonymity but a low… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
Even in my hometown of Linkoping where I grew up... the church we had was very lavish - very boasty. So it ticked most… — Tobias Forge Copy Share
Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized. — Tobias Forge Copy Share
'Dance Macabre' feels like one of those songs that you want to play forever. — Tobias Forge Copy Share
As a young teen, Satan and the idea of some sort of world that you could be in touch with that could empower you… — Tobias Forge Copy Share
The original idea of being anonymous - it was a great, naive idea on paper in 2008, not knowing to what degree we'd be… — Tobias Forge Copy Share
There are many artists that I know exactly where they are born and what their names are and where they live, which are still… — Tobias Forge Copy Share
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… — Tobias Forge Copy Share
I wasn't letting people in with the music writing process, and for a long time, I thought I was hard to work with. — Tobias Forge Copy Share
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… — Tobias Forge Copy Share
I have a fascination for well-produced '70s and '80s rock with a lot of harmonies. AOR bands like Journey, Jefferson Starship, Toto, Kansas, Boston. — Tobias Forge Copy Share
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… — Tobias Forge Copy Share
We've gone from venues that hold 500 up to 3,000 on our own, so I guess we're not entirely unknown. But there is a… — Tobias Forge Copy Share
