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Janice: Gina, I'm listening to your work as I write. Tell me about your inspiration for your songwriting? Gina: Hmmmm, inspiration can be a tricky thing to pin down, as often it is just a subtle, wispy thought or different perspective on something. And the something might be anything, even including the mundanities of life. But then having noticed this perspective it is then a matter of letting that become a truth for me and then the song lyrics are a way of illustrating and expressing that perspective in a (hopefully)vibrant and aesthetic way. Sometimes a song is built around a single line that comes to me when I hear Mark's music.  The way Mark and I write, is that he sends me a fairly complete song for which I supply the lyrics and vocals. Sometimes on listening to the track, a line of words will suggest itself and then I create a scenario around that line.  For example, on one of our latest batch, as I was listening to the track over and over, the words, ...