I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything.
Kevin ShieldsI don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general. I always had a fascination with that sound. It's a mixture of the idea that something could be going wrong along with the idea of bending constrained, Westernized music out of tune. But because I wasn't copying an idea, and it just came from somewhere inside me, it felt like a birth of something that most people didn't understand at the time.
Kevin ShieldsAs I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were so great at the time - actually would have been enjoyable.
Kevin ShieldsI had the time to take the original analog tapes and fix all the things I didn't like, so all I left was essentially the benefits of the analog with none of the disadvantages.
Kevin Shields