Quotes from Randy Meisner

It takes time to heal those wounds of divorce. I don't know if they completely heal.

I could have tripled my money if I'd stayed. But I was just tired of the touring. It's a crazy life that you live at twice the normal speed.

I just work around the yard. There's always something to do around the house. You fix one end of it and the other end breaks. It's very normal. I love it.

I was feeling kind of lonely and started singing All alone at the end of the evening, and the bright lights have faded to blue.' And it went from there.

It goes against my grain to yell at people.

We ended up all living in a one-bedroom apartment that cost $80 a month and sleeping on the floor. My jacket was my first pillow. We really had nothing at all.

I was sitting there one night, and I came up with the line What ever happened to Saturday night?' When I was younger, I would be out partying, and with girls and having fun. And that's what it was about: Whatever happened to it? And the answer was, You're older now.'

I was scared someone would ask me something I didn't know and I'd be on the spot. It's the paranoia of a very shy person. I've gotten over those feelings about interviews for the most part.

I was always kind of shy. They wanted me to stand in the middle of the stage to sing 'Take It to the Limit,' but I liked to be out of the spotlight.

I was more shy, staying in the background.

On stage you're supposed to have fun and play different licks and stretch out. You're not supposed to copy your records exactly.

Those last days on the road were the worst. Nobody was talking to me or would hang out after shows or do anything. I was made an outcast of the band I'd helped start.

A background person is all I've been all my life.

Money changes people. It all seemed too big and arrogant to me I didn't feel like a member of the group. Everybody was fighting.

I wanted more of my opinions accepted by the Eagles. I wanted to sing more.

I always wrote alone with the Eagles.

A lot has to do with the writing. If you're the writer people seem to remember you. But my part is singing the high parts. It's not the limelight but I'm happy with it, even though writing is where most of the money is.