“I was more shy, staying in the background.” — Randy Meisner Quote

I was more shy, staying in the background.

A lot of groups go out, and they make big bucks in a couple of years and they're gone. I would like a band that's sustaining.

When we first started, we were best pals and we all got along great. As we got older, when the money started coming in, everyone changed in different ways.

I always wrote alone with the Eagles.

No, I don't go along with everything they say or do. For example, I'm probably the only one in the band who loves funky rock n' roll, trashy music and R&B. And I don't agree with some of our images either. But Don and Glenn have it covered.

My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn't as a singer.

My background in financial services and my experience as a state representative have given me the ability to identify our country's fiscal problems and find steps to remedy them.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.