Jelly Roll

“I love songs that grow with you.”

“I loved all music as a listener, but I didn't think I could sing, but there was something about rhythmic rapping and poetry that I understood.”

“I'm the real Cinderella man.”

“I just did it independently forever. I just kept writing songs, putting them out myself, upload them to YouTube, it started to grow and build.”

“I love Wiz. I love the culture that Wiz has always represented, his longevity, the staying power he's had. Wiz is one of those guys that you can never count out, because every couple of years he'll have one of the biggest songs. I just love everything about him as a human too, how he parents. We connect as friends.”

“My successfulness of running from the police is zero and 20.”

“I think at some point in life, everything in life has let me down. But music was always my constant. Like, when I had nothing else, I had a boombox.”

“Outside of religion, the idea of being able to be redeemed is just a great idea. The idea that who we were is not who we are is so powerful.”

“I bought my mom a house once, but she wanted to move back to a trailer to live by her sister.”

“I never thought that I would do something in life that would make people care to hear my story. So equally, I never thought that my story would ever be judged.”

“I see myself as a broken man that's trying to put the pieces of the puzzle back together.”

“I didn't grow up in a voting culture. My father didn't push voting on me, my mother didn't push voting on me. They did push respecting the president though.”

“Songwriting was always my passion, it just came out in the form of rap. When I listen back to my old mixtapes, I was singing the hooks, I just didn't know I was singing. I was afraid I was afraid to open up and sing.”

“I do believe that dramatic change happens.”

“My wife has turned me on to rich people water. I feel so guilty drinking it and I don't know if it's different or not, but everybody says it is, and I'm a believer now.”

“I love putting together odd pairings, because I think I'm an odd pairing by myself.”

“I'm constantly writing songs to show people that it's okay to be a work in progress.”

“I wanna be on the cover of Men's Health by March of 2026.”

“I was, like, in my mid-30s when I found out I could sing. I was doing karaoke and we were doing Bob Seger, 'Old Time Rock and Roll.' I came off stage. And a producer was like, 'Man, you got to do a song where you're singin'.'”

“I spent less than 60 to 70 days in high school.”