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"I love poetry with brilliant rhymes, And songs that draw me in with clever opening lines. I love rainy Sunday afternoons - being kissed by sun, And dreaming under the moon - The way the ocean feels at high tide, The gentle stillness of midnight..."
I Love The Way - Ginny Owens
MQ: Do you have a favorite song on your current album?
GO: Let's see ... favorite song ... you have lots of favorites with music. You write all the songs so you don't want to hurt any of their feelings.
MQ: (laughing)
GO: There are a few that are just really fun to play and personal achievements for me because they were hard to write because they took so long. Actually, there were quite a few that were on this record. 'I Love the Way' which is kind of a long list of my favorite things. Kind of going back to the idea of things that have to do with the visual world. They are very, very much things that I have learned over the past few years about God's creation and kind of how He gives us evidence of Him even now, in the simple elements of creation. That's one of my favorites. 'Bread' is another one of my favorites. It's from my studying of the book of Ecclesiastes and seeing how Solomon - who is so wise - continues his search for something that will completely satisfy his soul and he realizes that he is not going to find that on this side of Heaven. As much as he knows that God is his answer and his portion, he has to keep bringing his heart back to that. His heart won't even completely understand that until Heaven. Those are probably my favorites.
MQ: On your first album, 'Without Condition', I was really moved by your song of the same name. Could you comment a little about that?
GO: It was a song I started writing in college. I remember I was meeting with one of my professors. She had just really stereotyped me because I couldn't see. She didn't know, kind of, what to do with me. We were going round and round about something. The meeting was taking way longer than it should have - all because she just didn't trust that I was competent. I just kept thinking, 'How do you think I got through three years of college if I didn't know what I was doing?' I just remember being very annoyed that she wouldn't bother to get to know me. That she wouldn't bother to get ouf of her comfort zone and try to figure out who I was instead of being... almost prejudiced and fearful of me. So, I started writing this song about her and just about other people who I thought, you know, just the whole kind of way of relating to me that I thought was lame. And somewhere in the midst of writing that I kind of thought, 'Well, this song is probably more about me than it is about these people' and my inability to love others in spite of themselves...in spite of the way they might look at me. So, it ended up being one of those 'comeback', 'hit you in the face' songs.
MQ: How about 'Someone Searching' ... was that written about anyone in particular?
GO: No, I think just the idea that we're always kind of looking and searching and that Christ is always searching for us - even the loners. So yeah, that was a little less based on a life experience.
MQ: What do you do in your free time, if you have free time?
GO: - When I have free time?
MQ: (laugh) When you have free time...
GO: I don't know about that...
MQ: Any hobbies?
GO: I love to read. I spend a lot of time catching up with friends when I'm home just because I never get to see, so I try to make it almost a discipline because I kind of just go home and hide out. I need to go see friends and have coffee and go eat or go shopping or whatever. I love to hike. I like to cook. I love computers. I am a computer nerd.
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