Defends concert participation
McGraw sees no conflict in his upcoming participation in a concert to benefit Sandy Hook Promise after critics call the show a gun-control fundraiser. He says he can both be a gun owner and support the concert. He is taking part in the concert because a band member is friends with a parent whose child was a victim of the shooting at the Newtown school.
Let me be clear regarding the concert for Sandy Hook given much of the erroneous reporting thus far. As a gun owner, I support gun ownership. I also believe that with gun ownership comes the responsibility of education and safety — most certainly when it relates to what we value most, our children. I can’t imagine anyone who disagrees with that. The concert is meant to do something good for a community that is recovering.
Masterclass
McGraw speaks about his life as a singer, actor and family man.
You have to own it. Anything that you want to be good at and anything that you want to succeed at
People cover
McGraw appears on the cover of People to discuss how drinking affected his life and how he upped his workouts to get great abs.
I wasn’t a beer drinker. I was more a whiskey drinker. And I wouldn’t just have a drink. If I was going to drink, I’d have some drinks. People were worried about me. It was to the point where I felt it was negatively affecting my relationships and getting in the way of things I wanted to accomplish in life.
People cover
Chesney and McGraw appears on the cover of People to discuss their tour, basketball, and being there for each other after so many years. On touring together:
As good of friends as we are, we’ve been on different paths for several years. To be able to spend the whole summer together and reconnect is awesome. One of the reasons there’s so much chemistry onstage is that Tim and I both grew up the same way; we both have a lot of the same heroes-George Strait, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Whitley-and we’re both competitive.