Back in 2006 Taylor Swift debuted on the music scene with her first single, “Tim McGraw,” and now Tim McGraw is opening up about how felt about being the subject of her tune.

Tim tells Apple Music at that first he was “a little apprehensive” about the song, but notes, “Then I thought: ‘Have I gotten to that age now to where they’re singing songs about me? Does that mean I’ve jumped the shark a bit? Is everything still cool?’”

But soon Tim felt a little better, sharing, “Then I realized that somebody had told me that [Swift] was in her 7th grade math class when she wrote the song, so it made me feel a little bit better about that because she was so young writing it,” adding, “So I didn’t feel like I was that terribly old.”

Source: People