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April 20, 1999
INTERVIEW WITH KERRY LIVGREN

Questions and interview by Magnus Florin

You are known as the founder of Kansas, AD and for your own solo career.Your song writing skill is phenomenal. Where do you find all the inspiration and ideas?
There is no easy answer to that...when inspiration comes, it comes, and when it doesn't - it's best not to attempt to write.
Tell us about your latest work "Collector Sedition" and your future plans.
It's an album of mostly new work and some re-composing and recording of some older but unreleased material. So far, it's taking a rather progressive turn. We're comtemplating a double CD.
Tell us more about your co-work with Ronnie James Dio. Both professionally and if you want, personally.
Ronnie sang on two tracks on Seeds of Change. That's the only time we have worked together. He was phenomenal, and a great guy to work with. I wish I had used him more.
Your book "Seeds of Change" seems to be quite hard to find for most people. Isn't there a desire for the book noticed, and tell us more about the content of it?
Yes there is of course a desire for it to have wider distribution, although it's available to anyone through numavox.com. It's my musical and spiritual biography.
On Kansas "Freaks of Nature" you wrote a song, "Cold Grey Morning", and also "Wheels". Is this something that could happen again?
Sure, with the right song and circumstances.
Your funniest road memory ever?
Probably a road trip the first Kansas band took to Albequerque, NM in 1970. So many funny things happened it's hard to cover it all. I wrote about some of it in my book. Anything you'd like to finish this interview with?
Anything you'd like to finish this interview with?
Thanks to everyone for the years of support.
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