Tim McGraw’s new album “Here On Earth” drops tomorrow and while it’s filled with songs that are important to him, he didn’t actually write any of the tracks on the record, which isn’t uncommon for him.

“I write for every project that I do,” Tim shares. “Sometimes it makes it, sometimes it doesn’t.” For Tim it’s more important “for the best song to win,” noting that before he chooses to record a song “it has to hit me.” “It has to viscerally hit me and feel like it’s coming from me and it feels like my voice,” he shares, “or I can hear it in my head as my voice and hear my interpretation of it.”

Tim realizes that if he gets a song from another songwriter it has to go from the songwriter, to him and then to the fans, noting, “if a song holds up through all those steps, to me, then it’s a really good song.”

Meanwhile, Tim kicks off he album with the song “LA,” which features an orchestral sound, which Tim thought was a perfect way to launch the record. He explains, “I did want it to kick the album off because of the strings at the beginning. I just thought it set a tone for the album.”