Johnny Depp is featured on the Winter issue cover of Aspen Peak magazine, where the star opens up about everything from his relationship with his late friend and author of The Rum Diary, Hunter S. Thompson, to his obsession with body art – and going to get inked with West Memphis Three’s Damien Echols.

“I consider tattoos my diary,” Depp explains about his permanent collection of body art.

“I received my first tattoo as a teenager. My skin is a record of my life. Recently, right before coming to Austin, I went to Disneyland with Damien (Echols) of the West Memphis Three. He had just gotten out of jail. He wanted to see Disneyland so I took him. Afterwards we went and got tattoos together. That’s my way of documenting things in my life.”

It was not a match made in Heaven, but made in prison, and it has lasted into freedom.

Damien Echols, one of the men known as the West Memphis Three, spent half his life on death row in Arkansas for a crime he says he did not commit, but while behind bars he found true love and married a woman.

Lorri Davis was a landscape architect from Brooklyn who saw the documentary, Paradise Lost, about the injustice of the West Memphis Three’s imprisonment and decided to write a letter to Echols that sparked their love affair.

They’ve given the love letters to the New York Times, sharing their intimate thoughts throughout the years.

Lorri moved to Little Rock, Arkansas to be closer to Echols while he was in prison, convicted of murdering three second grade cub scouts.  She began living the same schedule he did as a form of solidarity – meditating when he did and socializing very little.

Johnny Depp, along with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines, held a music and poetry session Saturday to help raise money to pay legal fees for the West Memphis Three, RadarOnline.com has learned.

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The West Memphis Three are Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley, Jr., three men convicted in the 1993 murders of three West Memphis 8-year-old boys. Depp has gone on record saying he believes the three men wrongfully accused of the crimes and vowed to help raise legal fees to help with their defense.

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More than 2,000 people packed Little Rock's Robinson Center Music Hall to support the West Memphis Three. Many in Arkansas say the West Memphis Three were wrongfully tried and convicted.

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Depp and other celebrities are not the only ones asking for the release of the three men. Some of the parents of the three children killed now back the convicted getting new trials and hope celebrities like Depp and others will bring national attention.

Depp grew up Owensboro, Kentucky, about 200 miles outside Arkansas.

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