Juliana, interviewed by Michael Christopher for Vanyaland ahead of this week’s run of solo shows on the US East Coast, giving a recommendation:

I think people should watch this movie called Fair Play. I saw it on Netflix. It’s about this young guy and a young girl, well, young man and a young woman, who work together in this really high-pressure finance industry in New York City, and they’re also a couple, and it’s about these sort of power dynamics and how they develop. I don’t know if men will like it as much as I did as a woman, but I mean, I think that it will be an enjoyable viewing experience for anyone. When it gets to the end, it’s kind of intense. It builds into this crescendo denouement, it just kind of really distills a problem that exists in society, I think, between men and women. It’s really amazing. I loved it so much.

Juliana, interviewed by Victoria Wasylak for Vanyaland:

VW: As someone who’s been an influence on you, what qualities of hers [Olivia Newton-John] have you tried to put into your own music?

JH: I don’t know if I’d call her an influence, it’s more like I liked what her music made me feel. It made me feel happy in a visceral way, like the sound of her voice was just very pleasing to my sensibilities. I just felt an affinity with her sense of melody and harmony, because I also love to sing really wide-ranging melodies, with lots of layers of harmonies and vocals. I think it’s like a shared sensibility, maybe. Her voice is not rock and roll, and my voice is not rock and roll either. I always wanted to have a rock and roll voice but I didn’t, so I guess I was truly drawn to her because she also had a kind of non-rock voice, and that was part of the affinity I had for her.

VW: When you went about recording this album, did you change anything in any of the songs?

JH: It was a challenge to decide with each song how much I wanted to veer away from the original and how close I wanted to stay. There were choices I was making for each song. Some of them are pretty faithful to the original versions, whereas other ones I kind of reinterpreted a little. There’s a song called “Make A Move On Me,” which Olivia’s version is kind of swing, but we straightened it up so it’s more of a caveman rock feel. “Hopelessly Devoted To You” is really pretty close [to the original], I didn’t change a whole lot, except I added one distorted guitar in the chorus. Just little choices. It depends on the song how close it is to the original. Like an instinct, each song seemed to tell me what it needed.