Lenka talks about her trouble-free year.
8. She makes sweet music (and art) with her boyfriend. Lenka and her illustrator boyfriend of four and a half years created "Lenkaland," a term coined for Lenka's signature crafty, cheerful, childlike music and artwork. "From the moment I started writing songs, he was sitting in a corner, drawing. It kind of grew at the same time. We developed this manifesto about the whole child within."
9. She was a salesgirl in another life. "I've always been into vintage clothes. I actually used to run a market stall in a previous incarnation of my life in Sydney."
10. She thinks "commercial emo rock" is for teenage boys. "I've never been able to grasp it. There's nothing about it that connects to me. I'm not a teenage boy so…"
Photos from Sony Music. Interview videos taken by Joanna Manalastas.
