Parenting & Family Quote by Peter Criss

A rock star confession that’s almost aggressively unglamorous: life’s big milestones stacked back-to-back, then undercut by distance, scheduling, and the messiness that fame (and multiple marriages) can leave behind. Peter Criss isn’t selling romance here; he’s admitting that even the “beautiful wife” framing can’t paper over a fractured calendar and a fractured family narrative.

The first sentence does the real work. “Finally got a chance” suggests not just a long wait, but a life where access to your own child is treated like an appointment you’re lucky to land. “From my previous marriage” reads like a legal footnote, the kind of phrasing people use when they’re trying to sound orderly about something that isn’t. It’s emotional distance masquerading as tidiness, hinting at guilt without spelling it out.

Then comes the whiplash: he’s just married again, but “we don’t see each other much.” That’s an unusually blunt admission in celebrity culture, where marriage is often packaged as stability, a reset button, a redemption arc. Criss punctures that story. The subtext is that success has produced an odd kind of scarcity: too many obligations, too much movement, too little ordinary time. It also reads like a quiet plea for understanding: if the new marriage can’t even get proximity, what chance did the old family structure have?

In the background is the classic late-career musician reality - touring, publicity, separate residences, long shadows from earlier choices. The quote lands because it refuses the myth of the rock-and-roll life as permanent intimacy; it’s a portrait of connection rationed out in stolen windows.