'The Chronicles of Narnia' books are great.
— Kevin Jonas
We just like making the music that we make. It makes us super, super happy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Travis Barker is one of the greatest drummers ever, and all the guys in blink are really good songwriters.
We try to live as normal a life as we can, but it can be overwhelming at times.
We really do get along, I think because we have a bit of respect for each other being in a band. But, of course, we're brothers.
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.
People seriously ask us all the time, 'Are you guys really brothers?'
We've grown up with the idea that even when you're at the top, act like you're at the bottom.
We wake up and pinch ourselves most days.
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 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.
For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house.
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.
Nick is an amazing musician. He's really focused.
We were a band way before we ever did anything with Disney.
It's neat to hear a new generation of musicians come up.
We've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.
We are, you know, not perfect. We live every day day-by-day, and we do the best to make our mom proud.
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!
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.
No one is above temptation. No one is above life in general.
Yes, there is another brother. His name is Frankie.
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.
Rumors are always out there.
We're growing and learning together, and it is important for us to stay true to the family that we are.
The online thing has been really big for us: the YouTube videos, the MySpace.
The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.
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.
I was on the road with my brothers, traveling around the world, and things would be going well, and what would happen was that I'd be in a city, and there would be no way I'd know where to eat because I would only be there for 12 hours, and we wouldn't know where to go.
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're guys that like to make fun music, music that people like. And I think, for us, it's just important to always keep your mind in the right place and always keep your heart in the place of making music that you love.
Anyone with a cellphone essentially is their own broadcast network. If you can build a reach for yourself, you're essentially an influencer.
We write our own songs, play our own instruments.
It's awesome to play 1 1/2 -hour shows because it's so much fun, and we enjoy every single minute of it.
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.
We honestly cannot hear sometimes because the audiences are so loud.
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.
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.
This music really is us. We're not, like, a manufactured version.
Each year when we set up a new tour, we kind of push ourselves to come up with new ideas and new exciting things.
This crazy world that looks like a lot of fun is also really stressful and crazy at times.
We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.
Moms are sometimes the craziest because they know they want to get their daughters to be seen by us or get an autograph.
You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.
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.
The model of Yood is 'taking search out of search.'
