Kevin Jonas
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For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house.Collection: Birthday
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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.
Moms are sometimes the craziest because they know they want to get their daughters to be seen by us or get an autograph.
The online thing has been really big for us: the YouTube videos, the MySpace.
We wake up and pinch ourselves most days.
We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.
We're growing and learning together, and it is important for us to stay true to the family that we are.
We've grown up with the idea that even when you're at the top, act like you're at the bottom.
This crazy world that looks like a lot of fun is also really stressful and crazy at times.
Rumors are always out there.
People seriously ask us all the time, 'Are you guys really brothers?'
Each year when we set up a new tour, we kind of push ourselves to come up with new ideas and new exciting things.
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.
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.
This music really is us. We're not, like, a manufactured version.
Yes, there is another brother. His name is Frankie.
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.
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.
We try to live as normal a life as we can, but it can be overwhelming at times.
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.
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.
Travis Barker is one of the greatest drummers ever, and all the guys in blink are really good songwriters.
We honestly cannot hear sometimes because the audiences are so loud.
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!
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.
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 are, you know, not perfect. We live every day day-by-day, and we do the best to make our mom proud.
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.
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've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.
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.
We write our own songs, play our own instruments.
It's neat to hear a new generation of musicians come up.
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.
Anyone with a cellphone essentially is their own broadcast network. If you can build a reach for yourself, you're essentially an influencer.
We were a band way before we ever did anything with Disney.
We just like making the music that we make. It makes us super, super happy.
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.
Nick is an amazing musician. He's really focused.
'The Chronicles of Narnia' books are great.
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.
No one is above temptation. No one is above life in general.
I've always had a passion for the tech industry, and I like to help build interesting products.
No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.
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.
Being discovered by an audience is an incredibly difficult thing.
As every parent knows, not every moment is going to be super exciting.
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.