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I love pinball.
I'm a band dictator.
Ghost has always been about make-believe.
I love playing arenas; it's the best thing.
I was 29 when we sort of broke through with Ghost.
I'm a big fan of '80s music, for lack of a better word.
So many people have opinions based not on fact but spite.
Sometimes I just wish I played in a band like Foo Fighters.
I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.
My name is Tobias Forge and I'm the man behind the mask in Ghost.
By sheer luck, we did our first tour of America as a headlining act.
My first teacher... was extremely strict, mean, and deeply religious.
Let's just say that I've spent a lot of time being not very successful.
When you're not successful as a musician, you are oftentimes unemployed.
In an alternative life, I would have loved to work in film - I love film.
'Dance Macabre' feels like one of those songs that you want to play forever.
I've always been very - for lack of a better phrase - hit-seeking, hit-driven.
With Ghost, I never really foresaw that it was going to take off the way it did.
My mom is very liberal. She has never been religious... spiritual but not religious.
I always hate starting tours, especially when it coincides with an album coming out.
The belief in something bigger and supernatural is not the same thing as linear religion.
The music comes first. Final lyrics are usually written very close to recording the vocals.
I never, ever, wanna see 'The Conjuring' again - ever. I don't wanna see 'Annabelle' again.
I've been in lots of situations in my life where I've managed to turn pain into growing pains.
Once you get people's attention, you have a greater responsibility to tell them something of value.
Public trials are very unsupervised and extremely swift and speak to the most primordial parts of us.
I enjoy the idea of being able to sort of flip-flop between being recognized and not being recognized.
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'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.
I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.
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.
I wasn't letting people in with the music writing process, and for a long time, I thought I was hard to work with.
I constantly work with material that could be two years old, five years old, ten years old, as well as new things.
Have I ever had dance lessons? I'm mobile, but not nearly as much as our promotional videos lead people to believe.
Technically, a Ghost song could just be piano and vocals, but it could also be full, pounding, heavy-thrashing hard rock.
Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of the bands.
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.
When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.
Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Artistically, or just performance-wise, I love playing arenas. I think that is my favorite form, because it's big enough to feel like a big, grand show.
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.
I prefer catchy, passionate, temperamental music. And as an upside of that, Ghost's repertoire has, over the years, been piqued by a few, sort of, hits.