THERE ARE NO GUEST STARS on this record. no big names to help the box office. what you hear is the best of what david chalfant and i can do together. sure, we recruited 2 amazing drummers. sure, we called in some horn players for sauce. but i wanted this record to be so good you wouldnt believe it, to be so joyful that it hurt. that's alot, maybe too much for a record, but in the end i had to live or die by my own rule. for almost a year, i have tortured mr. chalfant and held him almost as accountable as i held myself. he has held up magnificently.

i believe that everything you need to know about GRAND you can find in "cinematic". it is no longer the best or most interesting song on the record, but it is still the song that best explains what GRAND is about: the performance of fame and feminity. the life of the artist and the life of the soldier. housewives, moviestars, dancers, musicians and writers POPulate GRAND, and POP music expresses their lives. this is not a record about my life; these are other people's stories that fascinated me, that inspired me to try and add sound to the feature.

i love all kinds of music, and i think most people are like that. i love to move to music, i love to be surprised by music, so i wanted GRAND to be all these things NOW. when i made DISTILLATION, i didnt know how to make the music that i listened to most. while that's an album i am incredibly proud of- mostly for its simplicity and innocence- it is not as much fun or as loud as the music that generally spins in my CD player. i dont think its sense of irony is well developed, only hinted at. i hear baby steps. GRAND is my dream of what a record could sound like, of what i am interested in as a writer, what i want to be my contribution as an artist. you cant ask much more of your latest project.