Tim McGraw reveals marrying Faith Hill saved his life: I was a ‘wild man’

Faith Hill is Tim McGraw’s type of rain.

The couple has been together 29 years, and now the country singer, 58, is looking back at when he first met his wife in 1994.

“I’ve been lucky. I’ve been very fortunate. First off, meeting my wife saved my life. I was a wild man,” McGraw gushed on Tracy Lawrence’s “Road House” podcast. “I was having fun.”

Faith Hill & Tim McGraw.
Faith Hill & Tim McGraw.WireImage

Tim McGraw (L) and Faith Hill kiss onstage at the 2014 CMA Festival on June 5, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Tim McGraw (L) and Faith Hill kiss onstage at the 2014 CMA Festival on June 5, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee.Getty Images
The pair — who shares daughters Gracie, 27, Maggie, 26, and Audrey, 23 — first started dating while on tour before tying the knot in 1996.

“She turned my life around. I couldn’t have found a better woman. Not only beautiful and talented, but just a good, good person. And then having our daughters,” McGraw said of Hill, 57. “It’s life-changing. They make you a better person, and they certainly calm the demons in you.”

The Grammy winner expressed that being a dad “changed everything about my life.”

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw at event, New York, 1990s.
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw at event, New York, 1990s.Getty Images

Singer Faith Hill and singer Tim McGraw attend the 24th Annual American Music Awards on January 27, 1997 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.
Singer Faith Hill and singer Tim McGraw attend the 24th Annual American Music Awards on January 27, 1997 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images
“It changed my perspective. It changed the way I thought about what my future would be,” confessed McGraw. “It certainly took me out of myself.”

One part of his life that McGraw holds closest is his “tours with Faith.”

“The Soul2Soul tours with Faith, for a couple of reasons, because it’s rare that people get to do that in this business, that a husband and wife get to go on tour at the pinnacle of their careers and get to do stuff together,” he explained.

Faith Hill (L) and Tim McGraw perform onstage during the "Soul2Soul" World Tour in 2017.
Faith Hill (L) and Tim McGraw perform onstage during the “Soul2Soul” World Tour in 2017.Getty Images
Their latest tour wrapped in 2018, but the duo still perform together. (They also recently starred together on the Paramount+ Western series “1883,” a prequel to “Yellowstone.”)

“More importantly,” McGraw stated, “she makes me a better artist every time I have to sing with her. Because to me, I think Faith, when you listen to her music and you listen to her albums, I think she is probably one of the best singers in the world.”

“She just really has such a soulful voice, and her musical taste is just so incredible,” he added.

The “Indian Outlaw” artist has been sober since 2008, and has been vocal about Hill’s support.

Audrey McGraw, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Maggie McGraw attend the 16th Annual Academy of Country Music Honors at Ryman Auditorium on August 23, 2023.
Audrey McGraw, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Maggie McGraw attend the 16th Annual Academy of Country Music Honors at Ryman Auditorium on August 23, 2023.Getty Images for ACM

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
“She’s always been my rock. She’s my rock in everything that I do. I don’t think I could stand up straight without leaning on her in everything that I do,” McGraw told Yahoo Entertainment in 2023, while adding there have been difficult moments.

“It is not a linear path,” he admitted. “There’s setbacks… there’s times you move forward and do great, and there’s times you set back. And that’ll probably be a process throughout the rest of my life and something that I have to be diligent about … really continue to work at.”

McGraw also revealed which song from his catalog is his favorite.

Faith Hill And Tim McGraw at the Nashville Music City Walk Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Nashville Music City Walk of Fame on October 5, 2016.
Faith Hill And Tim McGraw at the Nashville Music City Walk Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Nashville Music City Walk of Fame on October 5, 2016.Getty Images

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.faithhill/Instagram
“Oh, ‘It’s Your Love,’ because it was the very first song that Faith and I ever did together,” he told the outlet.

“We were very early in our relationship, and it was just something that really just brought us together in a way that I don’t know what else could have,” McGraw reminisced. “And then I remember shooting the video. … Faith was pregnant with Gracie. That was just such a special time and a special moment, the beginning of a long relationship. I always look back on that as something that not only changed my musical world but changed my life.”

“It’s Your Love” went on to win four Academy of Country Music Awards in 1997 — for best single, best song, best video and for vocal event of the year.