You need to have spent your time from playing Top 40 pop rock in order to know how to play a song like 'Ritual,' a song like 'Absolution' or 'Idolatrine.' You need to know your classic drumming and your classic guitar.

Tobias Forge

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

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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 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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