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It wasn't about the party at all it's about searching but not knowing what you're searching for. I didn't know where I was, and I didn't know I was actually lost. Then, later on, I realized the song was really personal. It wasn't that it was a bad party, or that I don't like The Strokes I just think there's a lot of confusion right now in the music business. There was this prevailing sense of, 'We're not quite sure what's happening or what is cool, but we know that it's somewhere around here, in this room.' It was this vague confusion, with everybody kind of sniffing for blood. When I first came up with the lines, I don't know what it is, but you got to do it/ I don't know where to go but you got to be there, I was at this party for The Strokes in New York.Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy!: Live from the London Palladium DVD, filmed February 25, 2007.Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.About Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall concert, Time Out New York Issue 551, April 20–26, 2006.So I wanted to pick up that mantle and try to be a little less cool. And there’s nobody being the flip side of that, which is the hungry, lonely, desperate, crazy-person singer. or Michael Bublé-the kind of guys who basically want to get laid.
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I appreciate Frank, but there are so many Frank Sinatra imitators, whether it’s Harry Connick Jr. The interesting thing about it, too, is that I’ve always related to it mainly because I don’t relate much to Frank Sinatra. On good days I was Dorothy, on bad days I was the Wicked Witch. Responding to Reverend Lou Sheldon insisting on homosexuality being against the very force of nature, Bill Maher's talk show Politically Incorrect, August 2001.2.6 All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010).