Eric had intended that it be about great women in history. But his ideas changed and it evolved into an album about present day relationships, in particular the strengths of women and the shortcomings of men, although it's perhaps hard to deduce this bearing in mind the album cover which appears unflattering to women. This was certainly not Eric's intention.

It has often been thought in the past that EVE was the only APP album to feature a female lead vocalist. This actually isn't the case as on I Robot, Jaki Whitren lends her female vocal to part of 'Some Other Time' and also on the same album Hilary Western sings the operatic soprano part at the beginning of I-Robot.

Eric recalls that the song 'If I Could Change Your Mind' was ]originally inspired by Joan of Arc and would have had a very different lyric.

On the theme of strong women, Eric's mother-in-law was named Eve!