Richard Butler: "The response I've gotten from Furs fans has been great. You know, 'I was (ticked off) when I heard the Furs had broken up, but I really like this record' seems to be the consensus." (Los Angeles Times 1994)
Richard Butler: "The concerns that seem clearest to me on this album are the passage of time, not having a faith to believe in and not believing in the myth of romantic love. I believe in love, I just don't believe it lasts very long." (Press Of Atlantic City 1994)
Richard Butler: "There are songs of hope on this record. I think 'Green' is a hopeful song. 'More' is an optimistic song." (Press Of Atlantic City 1994)
Richard Butler: "I love the way [producer Dave Jerden] made Jane's Addiction sound, and what he did with Alice In Chains. I like the sound of those records. Then when I met him and he was talking about how he'd worked with [Brian] Eno... I really liked his ideas, and it turned out that the way he envisioned [our] record sounding was exactly the same as I'd heard it. Plus, he makes guitars sound great, and that really attracted me as well.
"Recording can get really boring, and the only reason it didn't this time was because of Dave sticking in his two cents' worth, so we were arguing with him all the time." (Unknown source, 1994?)
Richard Butler: "It's very difficult to pin exactly what's different on the album, because I was and still am the same person. I'm kind of a pop writer in some ways, but I'm not going to go out and make a Spice Girls record.
"I'm more pop in terms of the Rolling Stones, bands like them. Richard Fortus can sit down and say, 'Hey, I've got these four ideas, what do you think?' Maybe one of those will immediately suggest a melody, and I'll just start singing along with it, and then start writing words. And that's exactly the way it was with the Psychedelic Furs. I would say the real difference is Richard Fortus, more importantly than anything else." (Unknown source, 1990s?)
Interviewer: "In the early 1990's [the Psychedelic Furs] decided to call it a day. What were the major reasons behind that?"
Tim Butler: "We had grown tired of the record/rehearse/tour/write/rehearse/record/rehearse/ tour treadmill. And we felt we needed a break from it and from one another, although I did continue writing with Richard [Butler] for, and played on, the first Love Spit Love album." (Ear Candy 2004)
Richard Butler: "I was going to do a solo record. I left the Furs, put the Furs on hiatus or whatever for awhile, and started making a record. But it was much more band sounding, and I was working with a guitarist. During the process of making it, it became a band rather than [a] solo record. It never came out, the solo record. And it shouldn't have, because it didn't sound like a solo record. That evolved into Love Spit Love." (Chronogram 2006)
Tim Butler: "There was a time, after the first Love Spit Love album–I didn't do the second one, or tour with them–I actually went to audio engineering school. Then I went and worked as an audio engineer at Electric Lady Studios in New York, at Jimi Hendrix's studio that he built. So, I was in the music business, but I was on the other side of the glass, in the control room." (Creative Pinellas 2016)
Interviewer: "Taking a break from The Furs in the '90s, you and your brother were not inactive, because you formed Love Spit Love. Love Spit Love was a different direction from The Furs, but very good. What was it like working with that project?"
Tim Butler: "That was a nice break. I did the first Love Spit Love album, then I left the band and had my own band in New York for a few years, which didn't go anywhere. The whole Love Spit Love thing was a nice experience. I never toured with them because I had my own band. Writing with Richard Fortus and Frank Ferrer was great." (Cryptic Rock 2020)
Richard Butler: "After World Outside, I needed to try something else, which was to form Love Spit Love. We did two albums, and I'd started painting by then, but the Furs were offered a tour with The B-52's, and I thought, Hang on, this might be good, and we found we approached the songs with a degree of excitement and freshness again." (Mojo 2020)
Interviewer: "How did you feel when the Furs called time as the 90s bedded in? And what brought about that stand-down?"
Richard Butler: "It was time to go in and make another record, and I just realized I wasn't excited about it. I felt as if I already knew what it would sound like. We didn't want to do that again. And so, we just… quit. At that point it wasn't meant to be a hiatus, it was simply 'I quit!'
"I went on to make two Love Spit Love albums and a solo one." (Record Collector 2020)
Richard Butler: "When I decided to put a halt to The Psychedelic Furs, I thought, 'Well, who do I know that I'd like to write with?' And Richard Fortus came to mind – he had played in an opening band for us called Pale Divine. I got on really well with Richard and I really liked his playing. So he would fly into New York and sleep on my couch and write songs with me during the day. Then he'd head back to St. Louis and I'd write lyrics and he'd work on tunes, then he'd come back over again. That carried on for a while, and eventually he just moved to the city. We'd written pretty much all of the first record by that point, so we went in with Dave Jerden and made the first Love Spit Love record. Tim was around and joined on bass, but he didn't want to tour."
Tim Butler: "I left the band because I had my own band in New York and I wanted to concentrate on that, but it didn't go anywhere. So Richard got a new bass player and did another record." (Uncut 2020)
