Jelly Roll

“I just feel like I represent the guy who looks at himself in the mirror every day and goes, 'Yeah, guys like me don't make it.'”

“I love cutting hair, but I didn't realize it was such a stationary job.”

“My mom was a big music person. She was that ol' white trash woman that would be singing Bob Seger in the kitchen smokin' a cigarette in her nightgown with curlers in her hair? That's my mom. Everybody's seen that mom before and that was mine. I grew up like that.”

“I'm a huge fan of a guy named Tech N9ne. This cool thing he used to do, where every like third album, he would drop an album called the 'Collabo' and it would be 10 or 12 songs, like a real LP, but he would have a feature on every song.”

“I feel like Southern hip-hop was my saving grace going into country music because I had built a business already. I had built a YouTube channel that had a billion views before I signed a record deal.”

“You know there's a lot of guys on Nashville that were part of the Build-A-Bear program. Let's be honest. There are a lot of Build-A-Bears here. You know, the label comes in, finds a bear, puts pants on the bear, gives bear microphone, gives bear guitar, hands bear song, gives bear voice lessons, puts bear on stage, gives bear country radio single.”

“I always had a love for the guitar, I grew up in Nashville, so you can throw a rock and hit a guy that can play the guitar.”

“I've always considered my music cathartic, I always called it therapeutic music.”

“I used to be afraid to dream. But now that I've achieved hitting the top of the charts, I dream beyond measure.”

“I probably wrote my first rap when I was 10, maybe 11 or 12. And I shared it with my family immediately. Like didn't hesitate. The first rap I wrote sucked really bad.”

“I was charged as an adult years before I could buy a beer, lease an apartment, get a pack of cigarettes. I feel like the justice system at that point kind of parked me on my only set path.”

“I took zero accountability for anything in my life. I was the kid that if you asked what happened, I immediately started with everything but me. And it took years for me to break that, like years of work, solid work to just like break that. It also has taken years of work for me to even forgive that kid.”

“I don't know enough about politics to act like I know anything that's going on or what anybody's standing for policy-wise.”

“Music was the way I found out I wasn't alone.”

“I turn every bar into a honky tonk.”

“I think T-Pain got a bad rap for his voice for so long because he leaned into Autotune but never really needed it.”

“I always say the difference between a nickname and a stage name is you don't get to give yourself your nickname.”

“Being nominated for an ACM is a really big deal.”

“I love nostalgia songs in general, songs that take you to a place in time or have a setting.”

“I take a ridiculous, probably abnormal, amount of pride in being from Nashville, so anytime I can link a Tennessee connect, it tickles me.”