Jelly Roll

“There is something poetic about a 39-year-old man winning New Artist of the Year.”

“I was still a bad person in my early thirties, but I mean, I was a really horrible kid all the way into my mid-twenties.”

“I was the worst criminal ever.”

“I'm not a politician. I'm a dumb songwriter.”

“I think second chances are earned. I think sometimes you can earn them in opportunity - there are opportunities to earn - but I believe that second chances are earned.”

“I don't hide behind the I'm not political stuff. I'm not political!”

“Every album is a labor of love, and the day they're not, I'll quit. It's that easy.”

“When I think about coolest moments of my career, right now at the top, there has to be this thing that I got to go sing with Eminem in Detroit.”

“To me, there's two kinds of music: Music that's meant to be heard and music that's meant to be felt. And I was exposed at an early age with a music that was meant to be felt.”

“Valets, Uber drivers, Uber Eats drivers, service workers all love Jelly Roll, those are my people.”

“I want to be a guidepost of hope for people to know that losers can win. That who you were isn't who you are.”

“For better or worse, we are an accumulation of everything that ever happened to us, and I think that we have to wear that.”

“I want to keep making music that helps people. That makes it worth it.”

“Everybody's rock bottom is different. For me, it was realizing that I was the most qualified person to raise my daughter, and I wasn't qualified. That scared me.”

“I always say, talent will get you really far but if you don't have a horseshoe hidden in there somewhere, you could be in a little trouble.”

“I love sushi.”

“I'm 55-60% hard work, 15% talent... I had to spend thousands of hours figuring this out, and 25% pure absolute luck.”

“I think that people that become as big as I became, when they lose the weight, they're kind of ashame. They're so ashamed that they go and hide and lose the weight, and then they come back out, and they don't really know how to interact with the world, looking different or feeling different, you know?”

“What my dream is, is to get into scripted television.”

“If you're just honest with people about what you want, sometimes it happens.”