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"Whether you're planning a tour, you're planning a movie, a record release, single releases, all those sort of things, video releases, if you can't have a symbiotic relationship with all those things, then you're not capitalizing and making the most out of it," McGraw said. "I feel like that's the greatest thing we've got right now
-- we're all on the same page about how we want our music to be presented." The release of "Two Lanes of Freedom" also neatly bookmarks a new period of growth for McGraw personally. While struggling professionally, he was also reshaping his life away from the spotlight where he and wife Faith Hill juggle two superstar careers while raising three daughters. He quit drinking and started putting things right. "I think I just didn't feel comfortable with what I was doing anymore," McGraw said. "I think there came a time when I felt uncomfortable with how much I was drinking. I mean, who knows if it was too much or over the top or whatever. I felt like it was. So I got to the point where I felt like it was too much and I didn't want my kids to be around that. I felt like I needed to be a rock for them in a lot of ways and I thought that was a good place to start." McGraw says that kind of struggle never ends. But he's learned how to turn those negative forces into a positive energy that envelops his career and his relationships. "(I'm) growing up a little bit, I guess, is what I'm trying to say more than anything overall," McGraw said with that killer sly grin of his. He recalled a recent conversation with Hill in which he said something somewhat mature. "She looked at me and said,
'Well, I think you've finally hit 16.' So I think that's been good for our marriage. I'll take 16." ___ Online:
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