Tim McGraw Talks The South, Marriage & Family

In a recent interview published by HitFix, Tim McGraw opens up a little bit about the media’s treatment of his marriage, the south, and living with women.  McGraw says it’s like the media has a love-hate relationship with his marriage to country music star Faith Hill, “It sort of confounds me sometimes the whole build you up, tear you down thing that goes on, especially with my wife and I being together,” he says. “It seems like that there’s always been sort of we loved ya’ll being together but now that you’re together and you’re happy, we’d much rather you guys stayed together for two or three years and have this terrible breakup and had a lot of great songs that come out of it.”

McGraw also told HitFix a bit about his feelings behind his new release “Southern Voice”, “When you’re born in the south, it’s just something you grow up feeing,” he says. “It’s hard to put into words to other people, but a lot has to do with our history, Southern people’s history. It’s sort of a sordid history. It’s a history of hard work, a history of some bad decisions, a history of family. What it feels to me is this unique ability to sort of empathize with people and I think it comes from some of the bad things in our past, slavery and segregation, and all of those things.”

And when the reporter interviewing Tim apologized to him for some demanding requests, Tim’s response was, “I live in a house full of women. I’m used to it.”