Tobias Forge Quotes

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

Anybody whose film becomes a hit is a superstar. Today there is somebody, and tomorrow there will be somebody else. No single woman or man has a monopoly for all time.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.

Lots of people, from what I can see, just want to get into the music business for the glamour of it. But there isn't any, really. It's so up and down this industry, but if you really love it, nothing can stop you.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

Everyone knows that in Hollywood, when you're hot, you've got to run with it. Because eventually they kick you out.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.

Every winning streak will have to end sometime.

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.

Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts with these things. Sometimes you make a great record, and it clicks with people. And other times it passes them by; there's nothing you can do. It's still the same record.

I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I'm going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It's such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.

Being a singer, it's feast or famine. You have to hit it when it's hot.

I feel like such an idiot... you know, that our band didn't break up just so we can re-form and become more and more popular.

Once you have a hit, it just becomes another old song.

After '8 Mile' came out and blew up, the ball has been rolling ever since.

Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle.

There are a bunch of talented bands out there... So yeah, I often think, 'Why aren't these people onstage and why do I have a microphone?'

I had so much out there, the world was going crazy about 'Comes Alive!' I didn't need to go and rush into something else. You're only as good as your last record, so don't put one out for a while.

If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

People now are beginning to cheer for me. I've never heard that before. .. Maybe things are turning a bit.

The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.