Kevin Jonas
Any time you get to see Paul McCartney, it is pretty special.
We chose to be a family, not a band.
After the Jonas Brothers, I was like, 'What is next?'
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.
When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.
Surround yourself with people who will make you better, and learn to listen.
There are guitars everywhere around all of our houses. Pianos. Guitars. It's kind of just in our blood. It's in our nature.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
I'm a huge coffee drinker.
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.
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.
At the end of the day, sometimes we don't always get along, because when do friends always get along? But we are a family first and even more than just being brothers in a band.
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.
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.
I'm actually a big 'Duck Dynasty' fan.
I think my craziest Hollywood moment was performing at the Grammys with Stevie Wonder.
I think traveling as much as we do and being on the road, the craziest thing is probably having our own little tour bus.
I haven't seen 'Magic Mike' yet, and neither has Dani. Or maybe she has seen it, and I just don't know!
I miss touring. I miss seeing people on the road. I miss that adrenaline rush; there's nothing like it.
When you go out on stage and you greet the crowd, there's nothing like it.
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.
We're a young, married couple, and we go through all the ups and downs that every couple goes through; we're no different.
I think our music reflects us and has grown with us, and as our fans have grown, too.
My brothers and I have basically grown up on screen, and we feel so blessed and lucky because it's been amazing.
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 learn very quickly where you feel fulfilled and where you don't.
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.
My bag explodes with clothes all over my hotel room floor every day.
I carry cards because I don't like cash.
I was a total nerd and had, like, two friends, and then I left my school and got signed to a record deal.
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.'
I want healthy children.
My ring represents a promise to myself and to God that I'll stay pure until marriage.
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.
My parents have sacrificed so much, more than any parents really should.
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.
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.
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.
The model of Yood is 'taking search out of search.'
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.
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 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.
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.
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 first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.
Treasure every single moment you spend with someone you care about.Collection: Single Mom