"This next song is a new song, which I wrote about what I'm sure is gonna be a big hit. I'm sure it's a hit because I thought, 'hey, has anybody ever written a song about Frederick the Great, and Sanssouci? NO! I'll be the first!' So it will be everywhere on the radio.... This song is about Sanssouci, it's a palace in Potsdam in Germany, and what it represents is my own personal hell, but like a good hell where you're gonna go and do lots of drugs and hang out with hookers and stuff. So that's what it is; it's Sanssouci without worry."
R. Wainwright