Tim McGraw Puts Family First

Country crooner Tim McGraw is back on the road, kicking off his latest tour last week in Omaha, Nebraska. Taking time out from his very hectic schedule, the dad-of-three sat down with the Omaha World-Herald to chat about how he manages to carve out quality time with his girls Gracie, 12, Maggie, 11, and Audrey, 9 - with a little help from his very organized wife Faith Hill.

On making time for music, movies and family: "Family is right up there first - the kids' schedule and all of the things they're doing. After that, everything else sort of finds its place. My wife is very good at organization, so she has all the kids' schedules, her schedule, her mom's schedule, all the extracurricular activities and my schedule all lined up."

On his new tour: "Biggest tour that I've done in awhile. It's a lot of shows. The boys (in the band) are excited. I'm excited. My kids are excited this summer to come out on the road. Everybody's pretty fired up. I've been in the studio working on a new album, too. In January, I started a new album, a movie and getting ready for this tour, so it's going to be a pretty busy couple of months. [The shows will be on] Mostly weekends during school, but once school is over we'll hit it harder."

On racking up air miles: "Even days when the kids are in school, I won't leave home until 4 or 5 in the afternoon and fly in and do the show and then fly home. It's a lot of air time."

On being the inspiration for Taylor Swift's first single, Tim McGraw: "It was interesting. My first thought was, 'Have I gotten that old that new singers are singing songs about me?' But then I realized that she was in high school (at the time) so it didn't make me feel so bad. I thought it was pretty cool that anybody would write a song with my name in it and have such success with it."