Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.

What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based.

I think we're definitely playing up to characters. We see ourselves as a pop band. I don't have a pseudonym because I don't really need one, because I've got a weird name, but everyone has a stage name, and it's about a certain amount of escapism, really. The songs are inspired by the personal, but because there are seven of us that work on the songs together, they end up becoming Pipettes songs, rather than about any one individual.

I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit.

My aim is to be able to be more spontaneous so I keep evolving my live set-up.

That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.

The fact that Cornish exists at all is just incredible as is the work that people are doing down there, it's such an important part of who people are.