John Schneideris determined to remember his late wife forever.

“See the tattoo in the current issue of PEOPLE.

“That’s where her thumb was most hours of the day,” Schneider told PEOPLE.

John Schneider and Alicia Allain

John Schneider and Alicia Allain.Jason Wise/Getty

“It didn’t take any thought.

It didn’t take anything.

It just popped into my head.”

“That’s not me.

That’s got to be God,” Schneider said.

And he’s probably done 3,000 tattoos and had 4,000 himself.

It’s like, ‘That’s great.'”

Months after her death from breast cancer in February, Schneider is still mourning her loss.

“That was a lie I had to tell, but she knew it.

OK is a long way away.”

Schneider also plans to honor his wife with a new album created in her memory.

The two often made music together.