Q. It’s been a long time since we last spoke… A. Has it been that long?

Q. Probably, anyways, what have you been doing?
A. Oh, the usual. You see, music, art…

Q. Have you been working on new music?
A. Yeah I have. In fact, I’m currently working on the continuation of my newest record, Rock ’N’ Roll Baby, Vol. 1, out now.

Q. What does your name mean?
A. It’s a blend of the names of my three favourite women ever: Joan of Arc, my mother, Lena, and her mother, my grandmother, Nine.

Q. That’s lovely. What is your legal name, Joan?
A. Jenny. What’s yours, Jenny?

Q. Joan. What are your age, height and weight?
A. I’m 21 years old, 41 kilograms heavy and 177 centimetres tall barefoot, might as well get to two meters in my highest heels.

Q. How did you first get interested in music and art?
A. I started quite early, I began playing piano and studying music theory when I was about three or four. My father is a conservatory master graduate, he taught me to play organ and harpsichord. My mother is a painter.

Q. That’s brilliant. How did you then get to sing and play guitars?
A. I competed in ballet for thirteen years, then I decided I wanted to use my voice to communicate, and I had many poems that waited to get a melody… as for guitars, I just discovered their existence and fell hard in love.

Q. What do you do outside of music?
A. Any sort of art! Poetry, prose, visual arts… And I’m a university student of political sciences and international relations.

Q. How was high school?
A. Dreadful. I learnt that having the best grades leads you to a whole class-ful of gals despising you.

Q. What kind of clothes do you like to wear?
A. Neat lines and pretty cuts and colours.

Q. What is your natural hair texture and colour?
A. Dark copper brown and very curly.

Q. What is the first song you ever wrote?
A. ’Twas an entire concept album named Surrealistic Solipsism. I was seventeen and in Greece, with a twelve-string-acoustic, and a whole lot of imagination.

Q. What do you like the most about rock & roll?
A. I just dig it, so to speak. So much that it inspired the very name of my latest record, Rock ’N’ Roll Baby, Vol. 1, out now.

Q. What instruments have you played in it?
A. Every sound you can hear on it, I’ve created it. All the guitars, drums, basslines, vocals…

Q. What do you dislike the most about having to do everything on your own?
A. That when I get to master the track, I forget the mixed tapes somewhere.

Q. What’s your favourite colour?
A. White. I believe. Green too.

Q. Do you like glitter?
A. Yes.

Q. Who are your favourite musicians?
A. Lennon and The Beatles, Bowie, Chuck Berry, Elvis, Little Richard, The Last Shadow Puppets, Leonard Cohen, Pasty Cline, Joan Baez, Dylan, Sam Cooke… to name a few.

Q. And who are your favourites for acting?
A. Hedy Lamarr, and Jack Nicholson.

Q. How about your favourite book?
A. 1984, Lost Horizon, In His Own Write, and Amusing Ourselves To Death.

Q. What’s your favourite quote you ever wrote?
A. Oh, that’s a hard one… I’ll go with “sadness is a fuming gun / you can shoot the singer but you cant kill his song.” From my song Dr. Winston O’Boogie, from my record Rock ’N’ Roll Baby, Vol. 1, out now.

Q. What’s your dream collaboration?
A. Earl Slick.

Q. What are your hobbies?
A. Figure skating, skiing, and flying planes.

Q. You can fly a plane?
A. I’m a private plane pilot, yes.

Q. But like, you can fly a whole plane on your own?
A. Yes, I can even flip it and fly it inverted, upside down.

Q. Is it true that you’re left-handed?
A. Indeed! I’m left handed for everything EXCEPT playing guitar. I learnt to play forwards and it’s remained that way ever since.

Q. Is a second volume of Rock ’N’ Roll Baby coming anytime soon?
A. Yes.

Q. How much politics belongs in music?
A. Any load necessary to make a change.

Q. Is rock & roll political?
A. Very.

Q. Is YOUR rock & roll political?
A. Very. Try to find the political clues inside of Rock ’N’ Roll Baby, Vol. 1, out now.

Q. Don’t you ever stop name-dropping your record, “Rock ’N’ Roll Baby, Vol. 1”, out now?
A. Not if I can’t help it!

Q. I’m supposed to keep this up for a few more pages… when actually I’d finished the whole thing on “do you like glitter?”
A. Very.

Q. Is it true you met a Beatle?
A. It ain’t. But I met a Beatle child.

Q. And?
A. I ended up getting myself blocked whilst I’m still waiting for the collaboration, he had agreed on whilst shaking hands, to happen.

Q. That’s not very likely to happen, I believe…
A. I agree.

Q. What’s your funniest talent?
A. I can do a very accurate impression of Joan Lenine. She’s a singer and her new record Rock ’N’ Roll Baby is…

Q. Is out now, we know.
A. Do you?

Q. Yes. What people hear your songs years from now, what do you hope they think?
A. That a girl playing all the instruments, singing, producing and performing ain’t something “so extraordinary FOR A GIRL”. I’m a feminist, y’know…

Q. Well, that sounds like a closing line… also, my train is waiting for me, I must hurry…
A. I can fly you…