Thanks to our exclusive peek at his face without tattoos, we can say Jelly Roll looks remarkably different (though his cheerful smile is still very much intact). That said, even if he did have a clean slate, we have no doubts the singer would do it all over again. That’s not just us guessing — the singer has actually said that, himself.
Speaking to GQ, Jelly Roll explained that while he isn’t thrilled with the tattoos he has today, he’d be more than happy to start over … just with a better tattoo artist. “I tell people I regret my tattoos, but I would not not get tattoos. If I could do it all over again, I’d have went from the tip of my finger to the back of my head, but I’d have got with the best artist on earth and took my time,” he said.
Of course, a younger Jelly Roll simply didn’t have the resources for that. In fact, as he joked in his interview with GQ, while he knew of incredibly talented tattoo artists in jail, during his time in prison, he simply couldn’t afford to work with them. “When they were two packs of cigarettes, I only had a can of coffee,” he recounted. In light of that, he advised anyone considering tattoos to save up as much as they could, and to really respect the artistry of tattoos rather than go for a quick fix.
