During a recent interview with Apple Music 1's Zane Lowe, Tim McGraw opened up about his family, covering everything from coping with all three of his daughters moving away from home to Faith Hill's role in saving his now 30-year mainstream country run— if not his life— as he battled personal demons.
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"I guarantee you, had I not gotten married to Faith at 29 years old A, I probably would've ran my career into the ground, and B, I would've died already with my career into the ground, one or the other, and it wouldn't have ever been where it's at now," McGraw said.
McGraw wed fellow country star Hill on Oct. 6, 1996. He's since conquered alcoholism and has been sober since 2008.
"Well, I don't know if the maturity's occurred yet, but she put up with it for a while because I was pretty sneaky about it for a while," he explained. "But it was just overdoing stuff, and then I think when the kids got old enough that they could notice things is when she finally said, 'You've got to figure this out.'"
On a creative level, McGraw lauds Hill for always providing unfiltered advice about his music, including new album Standing Room Only.
"I'm always playing her the songs that I want to record and playing the mixes as I'll go along, and there's times we don't agree," he shared. "There's times where she goes, 'I don't like the way that sounds.' 'Well, I do, and that's way it's going to stay.' And the same thing when she's making a record. It's like, 'I think this should be your single.' She goes, 'No, I don't like that song. This is going to be the single.' I go, 'All right.' She's right about her stuff and I'm usually right about my stuff, but most of the time we agree."
