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

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

Sex is more openly spoken about than 40, 50 years ago, and I think probably in comparison to a lot of bands - certainly other contemporary pop girl bands - we're certainly not as suggestive. We talk about sex in the way that we would to our friends. As a girl group, I think it was important not to avoid those sort of things either, because it's about confronting people's idea of what women should be talking about and how they should talk about it. There's no point in shying away from subjects like that, because they exist.

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.

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.

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.

t.A.T.u. did a Russian version of 'All The Things She Said' and it was even better than the English version!