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Tobias Forge

(1981) Singer

99 quotes in 338 categories

A towering church in Linköping looms in the background of his memories, showing how grand spaces can feel both bold and cozy. He talks about horror movies that feel snug, a song he wants on repeat forever, and how he once chased freedom through dark symbols while trying to stay anonymous.

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Tobias Forge is a singer.

Quick Facts About Tobias Forge

Born: March 3, 1981
Profession: Singer

About Tobias Forge

Swedish musician... | Tobias Jens Forge is a Swedish musician. He is the frontman, leader, primary songwriter, and sole continuous member of the masked rock band Ghost, performing live as their vocalist under the stage name Papa Perpetua/Papa Emeritus V. Although the band was formed in 2006, Forge's identity as the Ghost

Quotes by Tobias Forge

I think very cinematically.

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I love pinball.

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I'm a band dictator.

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

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I'm a big fan of '80s music, for lack of a better word.

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I love playing arenas; it's the best thing.

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I grew up watching a lot of film.

Cinema

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Ghost has always been about make-believe.

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Sometimes I just wish I played in a band like Foo Fighters.

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

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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.

Cinema

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

Being

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In an alternative life, I would have loved to work in film - I love film.

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'Dance Macabre' feels like one of those songs that you want to play forever.

Dance

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

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Public trials are very unsupervised and extremely swift and speak to the most primordial parts of us.

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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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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…

Devil

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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…

Day

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I think you need to see parts one, two, and three of 'The Omen.' And then just skip the ending of number…

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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…

Adolescence

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Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of…

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Even if people would know who we are, or you could click on a Wikipedia page saying my date of birth, it…

Birth

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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,…

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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…

Bible

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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…

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Since I remember still very clearly what it was like not being popular or in a successful band, I know that things…

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More than often, what you see, or what we've been able to recreate, has usually been a tampered-with version of what I…

Creating

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My ability maps my own writing. I haven't spent a whole lot of time biting licks from the really quick masters. That's…

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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…

Art

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The original idea of being anonymous - it was a great, naive idea on paper in 2008, not knowing to what degree…

Anonymous

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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…

Catholic

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Even though 'Prequelle' is a record about death, essentially, it's a record about survival, and I think that that is something that's…

Death

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

Attention

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If you ever want to play bigger places, you need to have records that sound like you're playing in big places.

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For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole…

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

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

Music

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

Catholic

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