"When the other person thinks you are the evil one. They have no idea why they are part of the seduction. Of course, it's all your fault, meaning me." - MP3.com online chat 9/20/99

"'Suede' is about seduction..." - All Music 10/99

"'Suede' is the danger of not always the physical fornication of anything. It's the dangerous games that we play with mind control - the power of seduction, and how so many people put their hands up and say, 'I didn't do anything,' because they didn't fornicate." - All Music 10/99

"There's this moment in Suede where [the narrator's] being called evil by this other person because of whatever she's done to them in their minds. But there's this side of obsession and passion where one party thinks the other party is doing something to them - and sometimes people aren't always looking at their part in something. In Suede, she knows what she's up to; she knows what she's been doing." - Alternative Press 10/99

"...because it's you when you know guys. Because I have a crew of kazillions of guys. And they'll come up to me and go 'Tori, I didn't do anything wrong, why is she mad at me?' And then you hear this story right, they think, look all I did was show up in a room, why I have a girlfriend, but I showed up in a room and she was looking at me going, you know, obviously you want to be here. I didn't want to be there - i was just in a room having a drink and you know making out. So Suede is for all those guy who of course have nothing to do with it." - JJJ radio 11/3/99

"With something like Suede, which is about seduction, I picture jets revving and I was walking round the studio with a physics encyclopedia. The guy character in the song thinks the girl character is really evil, yet he's there to be seduced. Sometimes people act quick to see my evil twin, but they don't detect their own." - Mojo 11/99

"I think everyone has a shadow, and the pagan side really believes in the shadow, but it gets so convoluted and mixed up in the Satanic thing, when, as we know, a lot of people conjure at the dark side of the moon, which is what I talk about in 'Suede'. I do a bit of my own conjuring, but not to take somebody's power away. It's to not take somebody's power away." - Record Collector 11/99