November 23, 2005
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I think I can relate to what the man is saying about family priorities here:
Q: You've said the demands put on you after spectacular success of "Supernatural" in 1999 almost wrecked your marriage. But you've toured a lot over the years -- what made this different?
Santana: It was different because my children needed me more at home and (my wife) needed me more at home because they were starting to gang up on her, as teenagers do, so she needed me to be there with her and back them down to the point of reasoning. I've been married for 32 years, and Deborah and my children, they are first, middle and last. Everything else will fit in between or it won't fit in at all. I just made a decision. I said that's it. Most people would say, the iron is really hot, you've got to hit it. We said stop. For a whole year we just stopped, at the peak of it we said stop. And here comes another career suicide, but we're still here. My family doesn't have a pricetag on it.
The other question however is, is family a luxury that only those with gazillions in their bank account can afford, or does it apply as much to the other guy down the street who holds down two jobs to make ends meet? I mean, how many people do you know who takes a year off work to be with the family....
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