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The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.
For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house.
Each year when we set up a new tour, we kind of push ourselves to come up with new ideas and new exciting things.
We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.
I think traveling as much as we do and being on the road, the craziest thing is probably having our own little tour bus.
Moms are sometimes the craziest because they know they want to get their daughters to be seen by us or get an autograph.
It’s a little weird to have fans see pictures of us when we were little because it’s like, ‘Where’d you get that picture?’
We're a young, married couple, and we go through all the ups and downs that every couple goes through; we're no different.
Don't be surprised if you don't connect as a father right away. That's the one thing... No one ever talked to me about it.
There are guitars everywhere around all of our houses. Pianos. Guitars. It's kind of just in our blood. It's in our nature.
I want fans to give me advice on girls; why do they always say they don’t look good in pictures, even though they look great?
It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.
Maintaining the relationship. But there's also physical temptation and being on the same spiritual level, which can be difficult.
Ever since me and the brothers no longer make music together, I stepped aside, and I've been doubling down here in the tech world.
Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors, like a major record label.
Camp is so universal. It buys that sense of togetherness. You have camp friends that you only see at camp and couldn't see an entire year.
Anyone with a cellphone essentially is their own broadcast network. If you can build a reach for yourself, you're essentially an influencer.
Our shows are just like that. The screaming is constant, nonstop, and there's not one minute of silence during the show. It's pretty intense.
Really, each part, each one of us, I think, has our role, but I think for Joe, he really stands out and has that Mick Jagger-esque feel to him.
We have the most amazing security team around us, and beyond that, our fans are just very enthusiastic, and they have a great way of showing their enthusiasm.
There was something in Nick, becoming the Broadway star that he was and working from the age of 7, being on Broadway for four years, and then doing the music.
We Skype all the time - me and my brothers, and especially me and Dani. Anytime we're apart from the person we're with, we're always trying to be in touch and call.
A lot of people think the path to success is a straight line, but it's not. It has got many turns and curves, and you just got to go with the ebbs and flows of it all.
I think there's, you know, somewhere inside of us there's that - that fear of one day waking up and, you know, the fans - the fans move on to the next band or something.
There was one incident where we couldn't hear ourselves, so we were singing in an entirely different key than the instruments. It gets so loud at a Jonas Brothers concert!
We run around onstage constantly for about an hour and 45 minutes, and we know what that can do. You just feel great at the end of the night and when you wake up in the morning.
When we first started in '04 or '05, that's when social media started to become a way to release music and connect with fans - and our fans were kind of at the forefront of that.
It was funny because right before the whole band broke up, like, we were seven months' pregnant, so my life was going to transition anyway, whether the band was continuing or not.
In my line of work, you never know how the female fans are going to respond to another girl, but they've always been so kind and so sweet to Danielle, which has been really great.
I decided that it's going to be both Joe and Nick. Dani has an older and a younger sister, so it works out really well. I can have two best men, and she can have two maids of honor.
My secret is I cannot go to bed, I cannot sleep, if my bed is not made before I go to bed. I can leave it unmade in the morning, but I have to remake it before I get into it to sleep.
You want your kids to be developing at the right level, and everyone says, 'They'll be fine, they'll get there.' But you get concerned. You just want to make sure there's nothing else.
You can feel how the audiences react. For us, it's about the performance and the reaction. We feed off the energy. And no matter how enthusiastic they are, we can tell if we're playing well or not.
I've always, like, wanted two kids that were both girls, and my wife was like, 'Why?' I'm like, 'Because I've been around boy so much my entire life that I want to be surrounded by, you know, girls.'
The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.
We have Common on one song called 'Don't Charge Me With the Crime,' which is one of my favorite songs. It's a story song. It didn't really happen to us. But it's definitely fun to have him on the track.
For us, our musical journey has just been a progression. We're not trying to grow up too fast or anything, and I'm saying that even coming from being married. For us, we're growing up with our audience.
It was humbling to see my brothers blowing up in music while I wasn't in the public eye, but it was also gratifying, because I'm doing what I love, and the self-esteem you get from that is so much better.
We're not one of those groups who have one song on the radio and, boom, they're an instant success. We worked hard from day one and didn't get a lot of respect, possibly because of the way we were marketed.
We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.
I am blessed that I get to do this thing I love to do, and if I wasn't doing this, I'd probably be working as Starbucks. So the fact that I get to travel around on a tour bus all around the country is pretty awesome.
Maybe you're a little selfish that day; maybe you want something, and it can't happen, but you don't want to take no for an answer. Everybody has those moments, and you just have to be okay with being open and showing it.
We all had our strengths. I focused on mine, which was kind of the business side of things and more about the touring and the creative... Nick was all about the music, and Joe was about the entertainment aspect and the music.
We got very lucky, and we were really honored with how amazing our family is now at Hollywood Records... They believed in us, and they let us make the record we definitely wanted to make. And they let us be the Jonas Brothers.
I don't know how many times I literally hear this. It's the worst pun in the world from some idiotic frat guy. It's like, 'You must be 'Jealous' of Nick!' Constantly! It's like, why? He's doing his thing. I'm doing mine! He's happy. I'm happy.
When I was in middle school, I tried to impress this girl by jumping over this ledge on a scooter. I caught the edge of the ledge and totally fell right in front of her. I never talked to her again. So [my advice is], take it easy if you have a school crush!
Dani's family are great, and I'm really lucky to have them as in-laws. But it's definitely not all plain sailing. They are such big characters who aren't scared to speak their mind, and we have different points of view at times, so we have to work through that.
You forget everything that happened with the first one. Like, at first, I was like, 'How do I swaddle a baby again? Can I hold her like this?' It's like your brain is kind of melting. When you're in the hospital, you're like, 'They really shouldn't let us go home yet.'
We didn't tell anyone we had gotten signed, because people can freak out a little. But we started working with writers. I remember that I missed three to four days of school every single week, and people were, like, 'Where are you?', but I couldn't say anything, because we'd talked about keeping it to ourselves.
A lot of people don't post about their kids or do anything. With us, we are so proud and so blessed to have our children, and we also know how happy we are, that I feel like we would love to share it. We are not trying to exploit anything in any way; honestly, I am just proud of my kids and just happy to have them.