A biography for Tobias Forgehasn’t been written yet.
“If you ever want to play bigger places, you need to have records that sound like you're playing in big places.”
“If you'd asked me when I was six, 16, and 26, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, recognized rock star. Especially when I was six and 16, because I thought that if I was a known guitar player in a known band, only cute girls would talk to me.”
“Ghost has always been about make-believe.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I usually write a lot. I don't make an album and don't write for two years and then end up with a blank paper starting over.”
“I think very cinematically.”
“It's always ideal if the production that you're taking out on tour is the one that you spent two weeks rehearsing with, and you just do the same show thirty nights in a row.”
“I come from a home that had a lot of music played in general.”
“For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole lot.”
“I never, ever, wanna see 'The Conjuring' again - ever. I don't wanna see 'Annabelle' again.”
“It would have been easy to try to make 'Opus Eponymous II' and just stick with a routine. But it just felt like, if this is going to go anywhere, we need to take big steps every time.”
“I'm a band dictator.”
“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.”
“I think you need to see parts one, two, and three of 'The Omen.' And then just skip the ending of number three - it's so bad it makes me want to put my foot through the TV.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My mom is very liberal. She has never been religious... spiritual but not religious.”
“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.”
“Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.”