Jelly Roll ‘had a lot of time’ to write songs in prison before finding massive success in country music

Jelly Roll opened up about writing music in jail in a new interview. The "I Am Not Okay" singer was in and out of the system for nearly a decade.

"A little bit of both," Jelly Roll explained when Martin Short asked if he started writing music as a child or in jail during an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." "I was always writing songs to kind of like connect with my mother because she loved music. But in jail is when I really started – I had a lot of time."

"I was like maybe I should invest this time in something positive, and I wrote a bunch of songs," he continued.