Jelly Roll

“I cannot believe I walked around like a 550-lb. zombie for years.”

“I want to act, really bad. I know it sounds weird.”

“I always love people that are the same way publicly as they are privately, 'cause some people will tell you how great you are privately, but then won't post your album.”

“I'm the epitome of a guy that reinvented himself, right?”

“The streets - just to touch on this because I want to be open about it - I thought it was my only choice. I lived in a decently middle-class neighborhood, but I didn't know one person on my street with a career.”

“I run a multimillion-dollar business. I work 12, 15, 18 hours a day. I'm a disciplined man.”

“Those songs that meant the most to me I'm petrified of... These are my favorite songs ever, I'm just petrified to even pretend to sing 'em.”

“God gave me a platform to be useful and of service to people.”

“The windshield is bigger than the rear-view mirror for a reason, because what's in front of us is so much more important than what's behind us.”

“There's a picture that exists on the Earth of me meeting Sir Paul McCartney and Jon Bon Jovi at the same time... that was the one that was like, 'get out of here man!'”

“The culture I was first exposed to was hip-hop. Not even just music, but the culture - breakdancing, graffiti, freestyling, the clothing.”

“Tour is about the only time that I've ever felt valuable in my life.”

“The best songs I've written tend to 'write themselves' in some ways.”

“When nobody was there for me, music was.”

“Dude, there's not a chance in hell that I'm not going to meet the president-elect. I don't care - if I got a call to meet Joe Biden, I would have stopped at any point and meet him.”

“My career is now about using my dreams to help as many people as possible in my community and family.”

“I write everything from an acoustic guitar.”

“I'm not making this up. The Rock was listening to Jelly Roll music when Spotify numbers said only 30,000 people were listening to Jelly Roll.”

“I was lucky to have a good father, even though he was a little rough around the edges, really blue collar.”

“I would be missing text messages and know there were so many over there that it was too stressful to go check. So I would avoid that by mindless scrolling or, you know, I had these news alerts on my phone, and then we become big news stories all the time. I started getting caught up in that.”