Country Star Jelly Roll Opens Up About the Tattoos He Regrets the Most

Country music singer Jelly Roll is nearly as well-known for his extensive tattoo collection as he is for his music. However, he recently admitted that he regrets "98 percent" of his ink. And when he was asked about which tattoos, in particular, he likes the least during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show this week, the 40-year-old gave a pretty refreshing answer.

Bringing up the topic, Stern asked Jelly Roll if his face tattoos were among the most regrettable. "That's probably one of the few I'd keep," he revealed. "I love my cross, I love my slash."

"It's these—so, listen to me—if you are out there listening to this morning and you under the age of 25 and you are considering getting tattoos, I'd like to give you some wisdom that nobody gave me," the singer continued. "We will spend $300 on a pair of f--cking shoes that will go bad in six months. But as soon as a mother--ker wants $400 an hour to tattoo we're out, $1,000 an hour, no way."

"I have a tattoo on my arm that I gave somebody like a quarter sack of bad weed for," Jelly Roll quipped, of his own bad tattoos that he got when he was a young man. "And it looks like a quarter sack of bad weed tattoo."

"They look decent because they're all grouped together, so you're like, 'They don't look horrible, Jelly,'" he explained. "But until you dissect them and zoom in you're like, 'These suck bad.' It's just bad art. There's no other way to say it."

When Stern pointed out that years ago, artists wouldn't even tattoo faces, Jelly Roll admitted that he tried once when he was younger and got turned away. "And then I went to jail and got a couple, so when I came out they looked at it like, you've already f--ked your face up, we'll do it."

Stern also noted the potential dangers of getting unhygienic tattoos in prison, but Jelly Roll said that he's well aware.

"Oh yeah, listen, I've gotten staph infections from bad tattoos. I've learned nothing," he recalled. "You talk about bull-headed. And I still went back to the same guy that gave me the staph infection. It's crazy what you'll do, is next level crazy."

Jelly Roll first opened up about his tattoo regrets in a GQ YouTube segment back in March, in which he took viewers on a tour of his various pieces.

"I regret 98 percent of these tattoos, 97 percent, almost all of them," he said at the time. "Like core philosophies I rooted my life in when I was 17 and now that I’m 40, I’m like, what the f--k was I thinking?"

"I don't know, I don't like—I mean, I hate 'em all. I don't know where to start," Jelly Roll lamented. "Maybe the baby smoking the blunt was a little excessive, you know what I'm saying? Maybe that was a little bit much."

Well, tattoo removal is always an option, such as in the case of the once heavily-tattooed Pete Davidson, who is in the process of getting most of his own ink burned off. But then again, if he's lived with them for this long, he might as well just keep them at this point.