Jelly Roll's as honest in interviews as he is in song. During a chat with Jason Bailey of Audacy Check In, the country star owned up to regretting quite a few of the tattoos that cover the rough exterior of his tender heart.
"Oh, 96 percent of them. I have more tattoo regrets than I do, 'Man, I'm glad I got this,'" he said.
He went on to admit the temptation to blot out his arm sleeves.
"Listen, if Ronnie Radke, who is a friend of mine, hadn't beaten me to blacking out his arms first, I would have done the same thing," the "Save Me" singer continued. "Have you seen his arms? Now they're all just black ink, and he covered up every tattoo on his arms. How you think at 16 years old and how you think at 36 years old are so dramatically far apart from each other. It's embarrassing."
On the bright side, there's four percent with deeper meaning, including the name of his son, Noah, plus references to his unlikely rise to country acclaim.
"The tour tattoos I would keep because they do have a cool story, but the rest of these are like, 'Yeah dude, I can't believe I thought like that,'" Jelly Roll explained. "I've got a Gerber baby smoking a joint tattooed on my arm. I don't know who authorized this in my life or who was around me at this moment, but I hate them."
Another one he's not ashamed of is the apple core tattoo above his left cheek. It's a homage to his fanbase, known lovingly as "the bad apples." It's a reference to early Jelly Roll song "Bad Apple," which predates his long hair and quite a few ink additions.
