The tattoo in question references lyrics from the song "Hurt," which was first released by Nine Inch Nails in 1994, and later covered and released in 2002 by country singer Johnny Cash.

Johnny Cash and his cover of Hurt are iconic, even in the years after his death. The song is considered by many to be one of his saddest songs ever, with a video to match.

This is the story of Johnny Cash's iconic cover of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails. By the early ‘90s, Johnny Cash had fallen from grace. He’d spent much of the 1980s increasingly marginalized ...

Johnny Cash's late-career comeback reached another peak on July 24, 2003: On that date, 19 years ago today, the music video for his remake of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt," from American IV: The ...

That’s Trent Reznor, talking to Thursday’s Geoff Rickly in a 2004 Alternative Press interview, about “Hurt.” Two years earlier, Johnny Cash had recorded his cover of “Hurt,” the guts ...

But when Rubin suggested "Hurt" for one of the covers, "Johnny looked at me like I was insane," the producer shared in a recent Oct. 23 interview with Lauren Larverne for BBC Radio 4's program ...