1 00:00:23,399 --> 00:00:25,526 Before we kind of step into this again, 2 00:00:27,027 --> 00:00:29,280 I think there's a lot that we probably could discuss 3 00:00:30,322 --> 00:00:34,034 about the ways the old Jonas years worked... 4 00:00:42,001 --> 00:00:44,837 ...and how even the three of us felt about 5 00:00:45,004 --> 00:00:48,132 the way things were supposed to be. 6 00:00:56,223 --> 00:01:00,019 And that fear that everything would go away... 7 00:01:04,607 --> 00:01:06,192 ...at any minute. 8 00:01:12,114 --> 00:01:13,157 To do this the right way, 9 00:01:15,701 --> 00:01:17,495 we need to make sure everyone feels comfortable... 10 00:01:18,954 --> 00:01:20,831 and just focus on being brothers. 11 00:01:24,126 --> 00:01:26,545 - Hey. - Hey. 12 00:01:26,712 --> 00:01:29,840 - It was a good one. - Hey! 13 00:01:31,425 --> 00:01:36,305 And probably stop looking at it through rose colored glasses too. 14 00:01:36,472 --> 00:01:38,224 Actually have an open conversation about it. 15 00:01:40,643 --> 00:01:41,519 Yeah. 16 00:01:45,105 --> 00:01:47,107 Like, some things just won't work. 17 00:01:49,860 --> 00:01:51,529 Like what? 18 00:01:51,695 --> 00:01:54,323 I don't know yet. I haven't figured it out. 19 00:01:54,490 --> 00:01:56,992 I think just having that open dialogue instead of rehearsals being like, 20 00:01:57,159 --> 00:01:58,452 "This is what it's gonna be." 21 00:02:00,621 --> 00:02:04,208 What are you really saying? I don't understand. 22 00:02:05,417 --> 00:02:06,752 Building a set list... 23 00:02:06,919 --> 00:02:08,754 - I'm saying I will do that. - Yeah, yeah. 24 00:02:08,921 --> 00:02:10,214 - Yeah, that's what I'm... - Okay, sorry. 25 00:02:10,381 --> 00:02:13,342 I'm a little tired. I'm trying. 26 00:02:13,509 --> 00:02:15,344 I think you're afraid to be confrontational. 27 00:02:15,511 --> 00:02:16,387 I mean, it's fine. 28 00:02:16,554 --> 00:02:17,972 No, not at all. 29 00:02:18,138 --> 00:02:19,139 I'm not at all. 30 00:02:19,306 --> 00:02:22,017 Um... 31 00:02:22,184 --> 00:02:23,561 Begin. 32 00:02:23,727 --> 00:02:26,397 Fight! 33 00:04:09,041 --> 00:04:10,709 Someone asked me the other day 34 00:04:11,877 --> 00:04:13,879 if I had unfinished business 35 00:04:15,381 --> 00:04:17,341 with anyone or anything in your life 36 00:04:17,508 --> 00:04:19,802 and you had a chance to handle it before you died, what would it be, and... 37 00:04:21,220 --> 00:04:23,847 - Hello. - What's up, man? 38 00:04:25,224 --> 00:04:27,101 What's up, dude? 39 00:04:27,267 --> 00:04:29,269 - How you doing? - Love you. Love you, man. 40 00:04:29,436 --> 00:04:31,981 - Love you too. Missed you. - Welcome to Australia. 41 00:04:32,147 --> 00:04:34,024 I need a coffee and a mimosa, and I'll be good to go. 42 00:04:34,191 --> 00:04:36,193 Okay, yeah. Well, let's get you sorted. 43 00:04:37,611 --> 00:04:40,948 It had been nearly six years since we had spent time together... 44 00:04:41,615 --> 00:04:42,908 just the three of us 45 00:04:43,659 --> 00:04:44,618 as brothers. 46 00:04:46,704 --> 00:04:48,372 Holy shit! 47 00:04:53,377 --> 00:04:55,295 How'd they get you out of America? This is impressive. 48 00:04:55,462 --> 00:04:57,923 It is impressive. 49 00:04:58,090 --> 00:04:59,842 Good to see you. 50 00:05:00,009 --> 00:05:01,802 You're actually surprised. 51 00:05:01,969 --> 00:05:03,137 - I am surprised. - Yeah, man. 52 00:05:03,303 --> 00:05:05,514 I jetted right after the recital. 53 00:05:06,223 --> 00:05:08,058 In order to move forward together, 54 00:05:08,225 --> 00:05:10,060 we had to revisit our past. 55 00:05:23,323 --> 00:05:24,575 Welcome to Oz, Kev. 56 00:05:25,784 --> 00:05:27,661 This is what Australia's all about. 57 00:05:27,828 --> 00:05:29,079 Cool. Welcome. 58 00:05:30,664 --> 00:05:32,666 - Happy meeting, boys. - Cheers. 59 00:05:36,086 --> 00:05:38,088 Have you liked being here, Joe? 60 00:05:38,255 --> 00:05:39,590 It speaks for itself, I think. 61 00:05:40,257 --> 00:05:42,217 And I feel real lucky to be able to, like, 62 00:05:42,384 --> 00:05:43,594 call this a second home now. 63 00:05:45,929 --> 00:05:47,848 I often wonder how it happened. 64 00:05:48,015 --> 00:05:49,600 What? 65 00:05:50,225 --> 00:05:52,352 All of it. Us. 66 00:05:53,270 --> 00:05:55,314 You know how many people 67 00:05:57,024 --> 00:06:00,277 in similar situations to what we all went through together 68 00:06:01,612 --> 00:06:03,530 can't even stand to be in the same room? 69 00:06:03,697 --> 00:06:06,950 I mean, we were not supposed to 70 00:06:07,117 --> 00:06:08,160 get out of Jersey. 71 00:06:08,327 --> 00:06:09,828 No. 72 00:06:09,995 --> 00:06:11,080 You know what I mean? 73 00:06:14,666 --> 00:06:16,210 Welcome to the Jonas family... 74 00:06:17,586 --> 00:06:19,421 Ready? 75 00:06:19,588 --> 00:06:21,507 Welcome to the Jonas family household. This is our life. 76 00:06:23,258 --> 00:06:27,888 Oh, here we go. Hi! 77 00:06:28,055 --> 00:06:30,682 From the beginning, my brothers and I 78 00:06:30,849 --> 00:06:32,476 were always very close. 79 00:06:35,854 --> 00:06:37,356 We did love doing everything together. 80 00:06:41,235 --> 00:06:44,404 Wrestling, backyard sports. 81 00:06:46,281 --> 00:06:47,324 Every vacation. 82 00:06:49,868 --> 00:06:51,829 Most of time we would just run around the neighborhood. 83 00:06:53,831 --> 00:06:56,041 We didn't really grow up with, like, a lot of family around. 84 00:06:57,251 --> 00:06:59,753 There were friends with my parents, 85 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:01,964 musicians, singers, people that they knew. 86 00:07:02,798 --> 00:07:05,843 Other than that, it was kind of just us. 87 00:07:07,719 --> 00:07:09,847 We had a really tight-knit family. 88 00:07:10,013 --> 00:07:11,723 We became each other's best friends. 89 00:07:15,435 --> 00:07:16,478 Hold that note! Hold it! 90 00:07:16,645 --> 00:07:18,021 From an early age, 91 00:07:18,188 --> 00:07:19,648 it was kind of like the Von Trapp family. 92 00:07:23,277 --> 00:07:24,486 What are you doing? Get out of here. 93 00:07:24,653 --> 00:07:25,988 Music was just always there. 94 00:07:30,367 --> 00:07:31,869 Man, you playing that guitar. 95 00:07:32,035 --> 00:07:33,829 Where you learn how to play like that, Nicholas? 96 00:07:33,996 --> 00:07:35,539 In our household, it wasn't "No singin' at the table." 97 00:07:35,706 --> 00:07:38,208 It was encouraged to sing at the table. 98 00:07:38,375 --> 00:07:39,960 This is my grandson's stage. 99 00:07:40,127 --> 00:07:41,628 Very talented young man. 100 00:07:41,795 --> 00:07:43,672 He got a piano. 101 00:07:43,839 --> 00:07:45,174 He's got a guitar. 102 00:07:45,340 --> 00:07:46,884 Look at that guitar there, man. 103 00:07:47,050 --> 00:07:49,428 Wow! And where is he? 104 00:07:49,595 --> 00:07:50,971 Nick was three years old, 105 00:07:51,138 --> 00:07:52,973 and he's walking down the hall. 106 00:07:53,140 --> 00:07:55,184 ...bring to the stage Nicholas! 107 00:07:55,350 --> 00:07:57,603 And he hit kind of a bum note. 108 00:08:00,939 --> 00:08:02,024 And he went... 109 00:08:04,151 --> 00:08:08,071 And he backed up, rewound himself. 110 00:08:08,238 --> 00:08:09,781 Started walking... 111 00:08:13,827 --> 00:08:15,329 And he smiled. 112 00:08:15,495 --> 00:08:16,914 Kept walking. 113 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,458 And I turned around to my wife, and I went, 114 00:08:19,625 --> 00:08:20,959 "Did you see that?" 115 00:08:25,672 --> 00:08:27,758 We immediately went into his room... 116 00:08:29,593 --> 00:08:31,011 took out the lullabies, 117 00:08:31,178 --> 00:08:34,056 threw them away. 118 00:08:34,223 --> 00:08:37,309 Put in Stevie Wonder's "Definitive Collection." 119 00:08:39,686 --> 00:08:41,104 I remember I was with my mom 120 00:08:41,271 --> 00:08:42,773 at a hair salon in Jersey. 121 00:08:42,940 --> 00:08:45,192 I was about six. 122 00:08:45,359 --> 00:08:47,569 Just hanging out and singing. 123 00:08:47,736 --> 00:08:50,697 The woman next to my mom leaned over and said, 124 00:08:50,864 --> 00:08:53,408 "My son is on Broadway right now 125 00:08:53,575 --> 00:08:54,826 "doing 'Les Mis.' 126 00:08:54,993 --> 00:08:56,536 Your son could do it." 127 00:08:57,496 --> 00:09:02,000 Nick looks at me and says, "Mom, I'm gonna be on Broadway." 128 00:09:02,167 --> 00:09:04,336 And then he told us what shows he was going to be in. 129 00:09:04,503 --> 00:09:07,631 I was like, "Who is this kid?" 130 00:09:20,269 --> 00:09:22,854 When I auditioned for "A Christmas Carol," 131 00:09:23,021 --> 00:09:26,149 and I started working. 132 00:09:26,316 --> 00:09:30,028 It was the first time I really felt like I belonged somewhere. 133 00:09:30,195 --> 00:09:33,824 He was kind of the first to try at this, 134 00:09:33,991 --> 00:09:36,702 and he had this confidence that he could just go and sing in front of people. 135 00:09:36,868 --> 00:09:38,370 It came natural for him. 136 00:09:38,537 --> 00:09:41,540 I loved being around kids who were like me 137 00:09:41,707 --> 00:09:43,792 that liked to sing and dance and act. 138 00:09:43,959 --> 00:09:46,253 All these adults, too, that were so kind 139 00:09:46,420 --> 00:09:49,339 and so different to any people that I'd met. 140 00:09:51,258 --> 00:09:53,844 Think I was probably a little bit envious, 141 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:56,054 somewhat jealous. 142 00:09:57,639 --> 00:09:59,599 There was always competition as brothers. 143 00:10:01,226 --> 00:10:02,561 I mean, that was just natural. 144 00:10:02,728 --> 00:10:04,354 Whether it was who could do 145 00:10:04,521 --> 00:10:06,440 the most flips on the trampoline 146 00:10:06,606 --> 00:10:09,359 to who can sing the highest or lowest. 147 00:10:10,986 --> 00:10:12,863 So looking up on stage and seeing Nick 148 00:10:13,030 --> 00:10:14,573 getting this attention, 149 00:10:15,741 --> 00:10:17,367 I remember saying to my parents, 150 00:10:17,534 --> 00:10:19,703 I think I want to start auditioning. 151 00:10:20,287 --> 00:10:23,123 Joseph! What are you doing? 152 00:10:23,290 --> 00:10:26,418 He was suddenly becoming this comical person. 153 00:10:26,585 --> 00:10:27,627 like, all the time. 154 00:10:27,794 --> 00:10:29,254 What? Hold on! 155 00:10:29,421 --> 00:10:31,923 Wait, wait, wait, wait. 156 00:10:32,090 --> 00:10:33,008 Joe was just kind of a goofball. 157 00:10:33,175 --> 00:10:36,636 Dude! Cool! Yeah! 158 00:10:36,803 --> 00:10:39,306 I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a comedian. 159 00:10:39,473 --> 00:10:40,932 Definitely was doing standup comedy in the basement. 160 00:10:41,099 --> 00:10:45,062 Here's Joseph Jonas. Whoo! 161 00:10:45,228 --> 00:10:48,648 I remember making, like, a fake talk show at night. 162 00:10:48,815 --> 00:10:50,400 He wanted to be on "All That," 163 00:10:50,567 --> 00:10:51,651 the variety show on Nickelodeon. 164 00:10:54,613 --> 00:10:56,156 The first show I was in was "Oliver." 165 00:10:56,323 --> 00:10:58,533 It was an off Broadway production. 166 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:00,243 Really opened me up as a singer and performer. 167 00:11:00,410 --> 00:11:04,498 And being on stage and hearing the reactions, 168 00:11:04,664 --> 00:11:06,666 it felt great. 169 00:11:06,833 --> 00:11:08,585 I knew that this was where I was supposed to be. 170 00:11:10,879 --> 00:11:12,255 Action. 171 00:11:12,422 --> 00:11:14,216 "76 Trombones." 172 00:11:18,595 --> 00:11:24,393 Growing up, I always did kind of odd extracurricular activities. 173 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:25,936 You know, whether it was gymnastics, 174 00:11:26,103 --> 00:11:28,271 pole vaulting, magic. 175 00:11:28,438 --> 00:11:29,940 Good one! 176 00:11:30,107 --> 00:11:31,566 Those are not the most popular things 177 00:11:31,733 --> 00:11:34,319 that young boys would see as cool. 178 00:11:36,071 --> 00:11:39,616 And also, we didn't have money at all. 179 00:11:41,076 --> 00:11:43,245 My clothes were just was what it was. 180 00:11:44,037 --> 00:11:44,788 I became a target. 181 00:11:46,123 --> 00:11:48,166 Kids are cruel at that age. 182 00:11:48,333 --> 00:11:49,918 They would call me gay, they'd call me fag, 183 00:11:50,085 --> 00:11:51,795 they would, you know, call me pisshead. 184 00:11:54,047 --> 00:11:56,091 It would break me down. I remember coming home from school, 185 00:11:56,258 --> 00:11:58,176 and like crying to my parents. 186 00:11:59,219 --> 00:12:01,680 But I think what was really hard was... 187 00:12:01,847 --> 00:12:04,141 I never felt like I could find the place that I fit in. 188 00:12:05,350 --> 00:12:07,269 Even though I had things I loved, 189 00:12:07,436 --> 00:12:11,148 I just never felt like I connected with anyone truly. 190 00:12:14,651 --> 00:12:16,736 I found my other avenues. 191 00:12:16,903 --> 00:12:19,489 Pop in the E-Brain CD, and you can choose from eight different menus! 192 00:12:19,656 --> 00:12:21,116 Kevin started doing commercials 193 00:12:21,283 --> 00:12:23,160 I started getting booked right away. 194 00:12:25,412 --> 00:12:27,205 It was kind of a crazy season 195 00:12:27,372 --> 00:12:29,791 where their talent started opening up opportunities. 196 00:12:29,958 --> 00:12:33,128 We had Joe and Nick in Broadway shows and Kevin doing commercials. 197 00:12:35,922 --> 00:12:38,383 We lived 45 minutes from New York City. 198 00:12:38,550 --> 00:12:41,428 My mom had given birth to Frankie 199 00:12:41,595 --> 00:12:43,722 and was driving me to the city most days. 200 00:12:43,889 --> 00:12:45,891 Hours and hours in the car. 201 00:12:46,057 --> 00:12:48,101 Seven days a week. 202 00:12:48,768 --> 00:12:50,520 Just a lot. 203 00:12:51,521 --> 00:12:53,315 Especially with a newborn child. 204 00:12:54,608 --> 00:12:56,985 Sometimes my dad would do a shift. 205 00:12:59,112 --> 00:13:00,530 On the way home, 206 00:13:00,697 --> 00:13:03,200 he said, "Try writing something." 207 00:13:04,868 --> 00:13:06,953 So we'd start writing songs on the way home 208 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,456 from the Broadway shows. 209 00:13:09,623 --> 00:13:12,417 Eventually, we sat down at the piano 210 00:13:12,584 --> 00:13:14,377 and properly wrote a song. 211 00:13:26,097 --> 00:13:28,934 Nick and my dad write this song, "Joy to the World: A Christmas Prayer." 212 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:30,810 And they put it on a CD. 213 00:13:40,403 --> 00:13:44,032 Somehow that CD ends up with David Massey... 214 00:13:46,159 --> 00:13:47,786 at Sony. 215 00:13:49,579 --> 00:13:52,624 I first met Nicholas Jonas as he was then 216 00:13:52,791 --> 00:13:53,959 as a ten year old. 217 00:14:02,801 --> 00:14:04,052 He was an amazing singer. 218 00:14:04,219 --> 00:14:06,596 He was really naturally charismatic. 219 00:14:09,349 --> 00:14:11,309 His voice even then was absolutely undeniable. 220 00:14:14,104 --> 00:14:16,398 You could already tell at 10 221 00:14:16,565 --> 00:14:19,067 he was just that guy. 222 00:14:19,234 --> 00:14:21,361 I actually signed him then and there. 223 00:14:29,661 --> 00:14:32,205 Kevin and I started to feel like, wow, like, 224 00:14:32,372 --> 00:14:33,957 he's actually doing it. 225 00:14:34,124 --> 00:14:36,585 We started to kind of write on our own. 226 00:14:36,751 --> 00:14:39,462 And me Joe and Nick were in our little room, 227 00:14:39,629 --> 00:14:42,841 and we played guitar together just for fun. 228 00:14:43,008 --> 00:14:44,968 And we're playing around, it goes... 229 00:15:02,152 --> 00:15:03,778 We wrote a song called "Please Be Mine." 230 00:15:06,281 --> 00:15:08,575 The song just, like, literally wrote itself in 10 minutes. 231 00:15:12,537 --> 00:15:14,456 I think that was the moment we all looked at each other 232 00:15:14,623 --> 00:15:15,832 and were like, "This could be something." 233 00:15:17,792 --> 00:15:20,086 Very few feelings in my life as sure... 234 00:15:20,253 --> 00:15:21,671 as that. 235 00:15:32,474 --> 00:15:34,934 And then Nick wanted me to meet his brothers. 236 00:15:35,101 --> 00:15:38,688 - Such a sweet place. - There's a huge fish in here. 237 00:15:38,855 --> 00:15:40,023 They came into the office, 238 00:15:41,274 --> 00:15:42,651 they told me they had written a song 239 00:15:42,817 --> 00:15:44,819 called "Please Be Mine," 240 00:15:44,986 --> 00:15:47,113 and they stood in a semi-circle, I'll never forget it, 241 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,783 and sang me this great song, 242 00:15:49,949 --> 00:15:54,621 and I was blown away by their chemistry together as brothers. 243 00:15:55,789 --> 00:15:58,625 Then I added the other two brothers to the mix 244 00:15:58,792 --> 00:16:00,418 and the Jonas Brothers was born. 245 00:16:04,255 --> 00:16:05,882 I was in high school at this point... 246 00:16:06,049 --> 00:16:07,008 Why are you following me? 247 00:16:07,175 --> 00:16:08,718 ...and I was so excited. 248 00:16:10,011 --> 00:16:11,763 But I wasn't allowed to tell anyone 249 00:16:11,930 --> 00:16:13,390 that we were signed, 250 00:16:13,556 --> 00:16:17,018 because my dad was the pastor of a church. 251 00:16:19,938 --> 00:16:24,693 Doubt in yourself and doubt in your god will keep you from your destiny. 252 00:16:28,321 --> 00:16:30,365 We didn't tell anyone at the church at the time, 253 00:16:30,532 --> 00:16:32,617 'cause we didn't want my dad to lose his job potentially. 254 00:16:32,784 --> 00:16:35,870 We were signed to a secular label, 255 00:16:36,037 --> 00:16:37,455 and we weren't making a Christian album. 256 00:16:40,375 --> 00:16:43,545 We lived two doors down from the church. 257 00:16:44,337 --> 00:16:46,589 And we were there pretty much every day. 258 00:16:48,216 --> 00:16:50,760 It was a humongous part of our life. 259 00:16:52,512 --> 00:16:55,724 The community we lived in in Wyckoff, it was amazing. 260 00:16:55,890 --> 00:16:58,560 Always friendly. And we were so happy to be there. 261 00:16:58,727 --> 00:17:01,229 All of our friends were the kids that went to this church, 262 00:17:01,396 --> 00:17:03,940 and they were a part of the family. 263 00:17:05,650 --> 00:17:07,694 The way we saw it was our dad went on stage every Sunday, 264 00:17:07,861 --> 00:17:09,571 and it was like this big thing. 265 00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:23,168 There were people in the church all the time, 266 00:17:23,334 --> 00:17:25,044 people that really needed that place. 267 00:17:26,546 --> 00:17:30,967 You could feel they expected a lot of my dad. 268 00:17:32,302 --> 00:17:36,473 Being the pastor's family, you're kind of a first family in a sense of the church. 269 00:17:37,766 --> 00:17:39,726 There was a lot of responsibility on us... 270 00:17:39,893 --> 00:17:41,311 and also a lot of eyeballs. 271 00:17:43,563 --> 00:17:45,690 There's a pressure to be the example. 272 00:17:47,233 --> 00:17:50,069 Everything should always look like we're this perfect family, 273 00:17:50,236 --> 00:17:51,821 and nothing's ever wrong. 274 00:17:55,033 --> 00:17:57,994 As a kid, it was hard to understand that, 275 00:17:58,161 --> 00:18:02,207 like, there's no way that doesn't affect the family. 276 00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:12,091 That's not your pitch. 277 00:18:12,258 --> 00:18:13,384 - One, two... - Look at him. 278 00:18:13,551 --> 00:18:14,844 Hold on. Let me get my composure. 279 00:18:15,011 --> 00:18:17,388 One, two, three, four. 280 00:18:22,602 --> 00:18:24,020 Overnight, we're a band. 281 00:18:24,729 --> 00:18:26,606 It wasn't something that we, like, sat around for years 282 00:18:26,773 --> 00:18:28,358 or months and started writing music 283 00:18:28,525 --> 00:18:30,360 and then presented this stuff to anyone. 284 00:18:30,527 --> 00:18:34,113 We had to figure out who we were and what we were creating. 285 00:18:42,038 --> 00:18:44,791 We weren't great writers, obviously, at the time. 286 00:18:44,958 --> 00:18:46,543 And we were in... We were kids. 287 00:18:46,709 --> 00:18:47,669 But we were trying hard. 288 00:18:59,931 --> 00:19:01,474 The first day I met the Jonas Brothers, 289 00:19:01,641 --> 00:19:03,268 you just could feel that 290 00:19:03,434 --> 00:19:04,894 this was something unique. 291 00:19:05,061 --> 00:19:07,355 It was less about how amazing they sounded, 292 00:19:07,522 --> 00:19:09,232 and it was just more about a connection 293 00:19:09,399 --> 00:19:10,984 between the three of them. 294 00:19:11,150 --> 00:19:12,902 I just remember thinking 295 00:19:13,069 --> 00:19:14,737 there's something so special about this family. 296 00:19:18,449 --> 00:19:22,245 The label had a vision that we would be a punk rock band. 297 00:19:23,454 --> 00:19:26,666 One of the fundamental issues selling the Jonas Brothers 298 00:19:26,833 --> 00:19:29,460 as a rock band is that we... 299 00:19:29,627 --> 00:19:32,714 we were not a rock band at all. 300 00:19:32,881 --> 00:19:34,591 Okay, you guys ready? 301 00:19:34,757 --> 00:19:36,551 I gotta go to the bathroom. Sorry. 302 00:19:36,718 --> 00:19:39,262 The idea was, we're gonna put together a band. 303 00:19:43,141 --> 00:19:45,184 We spent a lot of time at SIR in New York, 304 00:19:45,351 --> 00:19:48,354 nonstop rehearsals all day long. 305 00:19:51,608 --> 00:19:53,985 To me, that was the ultimate band camp. 306 00:19:54,152 --> 00:19:57,864 We were just there every day perfecting three or four songs. 307 00:19:59,490 --> 00:20:01,075 We were there 12-hour days, 308 00:20:01,242 --> 00:20:03,578 six days a week, every day but Sunday. 309 00:20:03,745 --> 00:20:06,748 It was a crash course in how to do rock and roll. 310 00:20:14,172 --> 00:20:17,091 People have this in their mind that the Brothers was 311 00:20:17,258 --> 00:20:19,928 manufactured by some machine at Disney World. 312 00:20:20,094 --> 00:20:22,805 Put in, like, a bunch of kids with moppy hair and guitars in their hands, 313 00:20:22,972 --> 00:20:24,140 and, like, we came out. 314 00:20:28,603 --> 00:20:30,313 - Good morning, Kevin. - Good morning. 315 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,273 Today's the big day. What's the special day? 316 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,859 Today is my 18th birthday. It's a good day. 317 00:20:35,026 --> 00:20:37,487 We're going to the show, and then we're driving back to Jersey. 318 00:20:37,654 --> 00:20:39,822 It's really easy to look at the Jonas Brothers and just think, 319 00:20:39,989 --> 00:20:41,574 "Oh, they were this huge thing." 320 00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:43,826 But there was, like, two years of tried and true, 321 00:20:43,993 --> 00:20:45,536 like, rock and roll cutting your teeth. 322 00:20:47,914 --> 00:20:49,874 We were starting to play little shows here and there 323 00:20:50,041 --> 00:20:51,417 around, like Jersey, Boston. 324 00:20:52,585 --> 00:20:54,712 We would wake up at 4 a.m. 325 00:20:54,879 --> 00:20:56,506 and then start loading gear. 326 00:20:56,673 --> 00:20:58,591 It felt like we were a real band. 327 00:21:02,512 --> 00:21:04,389 We're were doing two shows a day. 328 00:21:04,555 --> 00:21:06,933 We'd wake up at the crack of dawn and do a school assembly, 329 00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:08,434 and then later play a club. 330 00:21:08,601 --> 00:21:10,979 We had equipment and suitcases 331 00:21:11,145 --> 00:21:13,022 and sleeping bags on the floor. 332 00:21:13,189 --> 00:21:15,858 And on a long road trip, we'd be actually really excited. 333 00:21:16,025 --> 00:21:18,111 We're in Boston, about to do the concert. 334 00:21:18,277 --> 00:21:20,571 It's gonna be so awesome. We're really excited. 335 00:21:20,738 --> 00:21:22,949 So we're getting the big mama out. This is the big mama. 336 00:21:23,116 --> 00:21:25,785 We'd be fully set up, ready to go, before school started. 337 00:21:25,952 --> 00:21:27,537 So we would be ready by about 8 a.m. 338 00:21:31,541 --> 00:21:33,835 It was awesome, 'cause we would win those kids over 339 00:21:34,002 --> 00:21:35,503 by the end of every assembly. 340 00:21:38,673 --> 00:21:41,509 We would drive all the way to Boston, 341 00:21:41,676 --> 00:21:43,344 do the show in Boston, 342 00:21:44,262 --> 00:21:46,723 drive all the way home, 343 00:21:46,889 --> 00:21:50,059 to then drive back to Connecticut the next day, 344 00:21:50,226 --> 00:21:52,770 because the gas money was cheaper than buying a hotel 345 00:21:52,937 --> 00:21:54,564 and we couldn't afford both. 346 00:21:59,193 --> 00:22:01,404 We didn't look at it as, like, roughing it. 347 00:22:01,571 --> 00:22:03,072 You look at it as, like, we're doing it. 348 00:22:03,239 --> 00:22:04,991 We're living our dream. 349 00:22:05,158 --> 00:22:06,659 Once upon a time, there were three brothers who all love music. 350 00:22:06,826 --> 00:22:08,202 Even more, they love making music together, 351 00:22:08,369 --> 00:22:09,746 and now they're living the rock star dream. 352 00:22:09,912 --> 00:22:11,831 Please welcome the Jonas Brothers. 353 00:22:15,209 --> 00:22:17,837 The numbers at the show were starting to grow. 354 00:22:18,004 --> 00:22:21,299 It went from, like, 50 people, all of a sudden to, like, 200 people. 355 00:22:32,435 --> 00:22:34,479 When you saw them play, there was no question about it. 356 00:22:34,645 --> 00:22:36,898 There was some chemistry there that you hadn't seen before. 357 00:22:37,065 --> 00:22:39,108 And their success came from hard work. It wasn't luck. 358 00:22:50,620 --> 00:22:51,788 There was a spark about it. 359 00:22:51,954 --> 00:22:53,623 It was evident to everybody. 360 00:22:53,790 --> 00:22:55,500 And then it started to bubble. 361 00:22:55,666 --> 00:22:57,710 These guys hail from right across the river in New Jersey, 362 00:22:57,877 --> 00:22:59,712 and they're about to take the world by storm. 363 00:22:59,879 --> 00:23:01,464 TRL, show some love for the Jonas Brothers. 364 00:23:03,674 --> 00:23:05,301 Out of nowhere, 365 00:23:05,468 --> 00:23:08,638 the "Mandy" video becomes the number one song on TRL. 366 00:23:08,805 --> 00:23:10,556 You walked down the hallway, 367 00:23:10,723 --> 00:23:13,017 and there was fans waiting for you outside. 368 00:23:13,184 --> 00:23:14,393 That was it. 369 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:15,603 You see retirement after that. 370 00:23:26,322 --> 00:23:27,949 It's important to remember that at this time, 371 00:23:28,116 --> 00:23:31,202 Nick is very, very much the leader of this group. 372 00:23:36,415 --> 00:23:37,542 That year saw a lot of change. 373 00:23:38,876 --> 00:23:41,671 Nick started getting a little more moody. 374 00:23:41,838 --> 00:23:43,840 We were hearing from a couple of the band members 375 00:23:44,006 --> 00:23:46,175 that his personality was getting... 376 00:23:47,552 --> 00:23:49,846 direct, uh, more agitated. 377 00:23:51,347 --> 00:23:53,307 He would demand that we would pull over 378 00:23:53,474 --> 00:23:55,560 and get pizza and Diet Coke. 379 00:23:55,726 --> 00:23:57,186 And he would say, "I need it." 380 00:23:58,646 --> 00:24:00,273 Every time we would stop, 381 00:24:00,439 --> 00:24:03,526 Nick would get this massive Big Gulp. 382 00:24:03,693 --> 00:24:05,736 Drinking a ton of water. 383 00:24:05,903 --> 00:24:07,989 Like, so much liquid. 384 00:24:08,739 --> 00:24:10,324 The band members, 385 00:24:10,491 --> 00:24:13,327 they were a little concerned, he was really thirsty. 386 00:24:13,494 --> 00:24:14,787 We would stop every 15 minutes 387 00:24:14,954 --> 00:24:16,122 'cause Nick really had to pee, 388 00:24:16,289 --> 00:24:17,373 and it was like a running joke. 389 00:24:18,833 --> 00:24:20,251 We would pull out on the side 390 00:24:20,418 --> 00:24:22,128 of the turnpike in New Jersey, 391 00:24:22,295 --> 00:24:25,423 he would run into the woods and pee and then hop back in, 392 00:24:25,590 --> 00:24:28,176 and then two miles later we'd have to pull over again. 393 00:24:28,342 --> 00:24:30,803 One day, me, Joe and Nick are all sharing a room, 394 00:24:30,970 --> 00:24:33,472 and Nick is changing. 395 00:24:33,639 --> 00:24:36,100 I looked at him and I could see 396 00:24:36,267 --> 00:24:39,187 every single bone in his body. 397 00:24:39,353 --> 00:24:40,897 I look in the mirror 398 00:24:41,063 --> 00:24:42,940 and I'm like a skeleton. 399 00:24:43,107 --> 00:24:44,734 Feel like I'm dying. 400 00:24:44,901 --> 00:24:47,153 I wouldn't see Nick for 10 days sometimes. 401 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,405 Every time he'd come home, he was little bit more thin. 402 00:24:50,781 --> 00:24:52,325 I, like, went to my parents and I was crying, 403 00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:53,910 and said, "Something's wrong with Nick, 404 00:24:54,076 --> 00:24:55,411 like, we have to go... bring him to the doctor." 405 00:24:57,330 --> 00:24:58,831 My pediatrician looks at me, 406 00:24:58,998 --> 00:25:01,125 and I tell her the symptoms. 407 00:25:01,292 --> 00:25:03,461 She starts to tear up and I get kind of concerned, 408 00:25:03,628 --> 00:25:06,130 and says don't go home, don't pack a bag, 409 00:25:06,297 --> 00:25:07,924 just go straight to the hospital. 410 00:25:08,090 --> 00:25:09,175 She's like... 411 00:25:10,218 --> 00:25:12,261 you have diabetes and... 412 00:25:13,888 --> 00:25:16,265 he asked if he was gonna die. 413 00:25:17,892 --> 00:25:21,145 I had dealt with people in church life 414 00:25:21,312 --> 00:25:23,105 that had diabetes. 415 00:25:23,272 --> 00:25:25,608 I forgot everything I knew. 416 00:25:26,651 --> 00:25:29,070 It's just this amazing thing when it comes to your own kids 417 00:25:29,237 --> 00:25:30,404 or your family. 418 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,533 And we all started crying. 419 00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:36,077 I passed out in the hospital room 420 00:25:36,244 --> 00:25:37,745 because I couldn't see him, 421 00:25:37,912 --> 00:25:39,163 like, all hooked up to these wires, 422 00:25:39,330 --> 00:25:42,500 and it was like a really... 423 00:25:42,667 --> 00:25:44,126 life-shifting moment for everybody. 424 00:25:45,044 --> 00:25:46,128 Nick as we had known him... 425 00:25:46,295 --> 00:25:47,797 happy, smiling... 426 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:50,466 smiling... 427 00:25:51,592 --> 00:25:54,303 singing at the top of his lungs when he wakes up... 428 00:25:54,470 --> 00:25:56,806 he was different after that. 429 00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,600 We were worried for him, 430 00:25:59,767 --> 00:26:02,561 but there was also professional concern. 431 00:26:02,728 --> 00:26:05,273 We actually had a show, and we didn't know, 432 00:26:05,439 --> 00:26:06,983 should we cancel the show or not, 433 00:26:07,149 --> 00:26:10,361 all the executives from Sony were gonna be there. 434 00:26:10,528 --> 00:26:11,779 I got out of the hospital and we said, 435 00:26:11,946 --> 00:26:13,656 let's not tell the label, 436 00:26:13,823 --> 00:26:16,909 'cause it'll make 'em think, uh, he won't be able to work. 437 00:26:17,076 --> 00:26:20,329 You don't want to give a label an excuse to drop you, 438 00:26:20,496 --> 00:26:24,041 which would have been the lowest thing anybody could have done, 439 00:26:24,208 --> 00:26:27,336 but... it's a crazy business. 440 00:26:29,588 --> 00:26:31,132 And Nick said, 441 00:26:31,299 --> 00:26:32,800 "Get outta my way. 442 00:26:32,967 --> 00:26:35,761 We're doing a show, and we're gonna kill it." 443 00:26:35,928 --> 00:26:38,639 And he went from the hospital to the stage, 444 00:26:38,806 --> 00:26:41,517 and the three of them just rocked it. 445 00:26:43,644 --> 00:26:44,854 So, Nick, man, where we goin'? 446 00:26:45,021 --> 00:26:47,023 We are going to the heart of Boston. 447 00:26:47,189 --> 00:26:48,941 Gonna go to some cool places. 448 00:26:49,108 --> 00:26:51,319 Last time we came here to do, like, the school shows, 449 00:26:51,485 --> 00:26:54,030 I was sick, so I couldn't go out with the guys, 450 00:26:54,196 --> 00:26:55,531 but this time I'm going out. 451 00:26:55,698 --> 00:26:56,699 Gonna be awesome. 452 00:27:07,918 --> 00:27:10,254 I haven't been back to Wyckoff in, I think, about 10 years. 453 00:27:10,421 --> 00:27:11,839 It's about the same for me, 454 00:27:12,006 --> 00:27:13,174 - maybe... maybe more. - Maybe more, yeah. 455 00:27:13,341 --> 00:27:15,676 - Twelve years? - Wow. 456 00:27:15,843 --> 00:27:18,137 New Jersey. It gets a bad rap, 457 00:27:18,304 --> 00:27:20,181 but it really is beautiful. 458 00:27:20,348 --> 00:27:21,640 This is, like, 459 00:27:21,807 --> 00:27:24,393 kind of where it all started for us out here. 460 00:27:25,686 --> 00:27:27,855 Like anybody's story, the good, the bad and the ugly, 461 00:27:28,022 --> 00:27:31,609 so I think there's like a... a mix of emotions 462 00:27:31,776 --> 00:27:32,735 that we'll all be feeling today. 463 00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:40,618 - Oh, shit. There it is. - Holy shit! 464 00:27:40,785 --> 00:27:42,286 - There it is. - Wow. 465 00:27:42,453 --> 00:27:43,829 Let's go check it out. 466 00:27:43,996 --> 00:27:44,997 Hold on, Joe, wait for the cameras. 467 00:27:45,164 --> 00:27:46,624 They'll follow. Come on. 468 00:27:46,791 --> 00:27:47,958 They're not even close to being ready. 469 00:27:48,125 --> 00:27:49,668 Whatever. I want to see it, too. 470 00:27:49,835 --> 00:27:51,003 I'm not just here to, like, 471 00:27:51,170 --> 00:27:52,213 be filmed. 472 00:27:53,130 --> 00:27:54,298 Oh, my God. 473 00:27:57,676 --> 00:27:59,303 So crazy. 474 00:27:59,470 --> 00:28:00,429 Weird, man. 475 00:28:07,395 --> 00:28:08,979 This is so trippy. 476 00:28:09,146 --> 00:28:11,065 It's at a complete standstill. 477 00:28:11,232 --> 00:28:13,401 Frozen in time. 478 00:28:13,567 --> 00:28:14,902 We haven't been back in so long. 479 00:28:15,069 --> 00:28:16,237 We wrote "Please Be Mine" 480 00:28:16,404 --> 00:28:17,822 in that living room right there. 481 00:28:17,988 --> 00:28:20,741 Where that window is, with the red curtain. 482 00:28:20,908 --> 00:28:22,326 I mean, it's even trippier 'cause there's, like, 483 00:28:22,493 --> 00:28:24,078 nothing's changed about the house at all. 484 00:28:24,245 --> 00:28:25,871 - Yeah. -Feels like we would just walk back in there 485 00:28:26,038 --> 00:28:27,289 and be six years... seven years old. 486 00:28:29,083 --> 00:28:30,584 There's a lot of firsts for us here. 487 00:28:30,751 --> 00:28:32,461 First song. 488 00:28:33,421 --> 00:28:35,131 First hospital visit. 489 00:28:36,048 --> 00:28:38,300 Mom and Dad got pregnant with Frankie there. 490 00:28:42,179 --> 00:28:43,597 - Whoa... - That church. 491 00:28:49,603 --> 00:28:51,856 This is, like, the first place I sang. 492 00:28:52,022 --> 00:28:53,482 It was at the church, yeah. 493 00:28:54,108 --> 00:28:55,776 I played on the worship team here every Sunday. 494 00:28:56,735 --> 00:28:58,487 We were here every single day. 495 00:29:01,031 --> 00:29:02,283 Should we go in or... 496 00:29:02,450 --> 00:29:04,243 - No. - Go inside. 497 00:29:04,410 --> 00:29:06,036 - We could go underneath... - No. 498 00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:09,707 So... 499 00:29:09,874 --> 00:29:10,749 Let's... Let's go. 500 00:29:31,353 --> 00:29:33,022 Things began to shift in the church. 501 00:29:34,106 --> 00:29:36,567 That became really challenging. 502 00:29:36,734 --> 00:29:38,694 Once we started doing our own thing in music, 503 00:29:38,861 --> 00:29:41,989 there were people starting to speak about our dad 504 00:29:42,156 --> 00:29:43,365 in... in a negative way. 505 00:29:44,450 --> 00:29:46,327 There was this perception that was put on us 506 00:29:46,494 --> 00:29:47,620 that we were supposed to be these 507 00:29:47,786 --> 00:29:50,414 squeaky clean, perfect kids. 508 00:29:50,581 --> 00:29:51,957 Dad's job essentially hinged on it. 509 00:29:53,375 --> 00:29:55,377 I think that there was some judgment on us 510 00:29:55,544 --> 00:29:57,796 for not being a Christian band. 511 00:29:59,507 --> 00:30:02,676 Singing about girls started to become 512 00:30:02,843 --> 00:30:03,969 a bit of an issue. 513 00:30:04,136 --> 00:30:06,597 There was so much going on 514 00:30:06,764 --> 00:30:09,016 that our dad and mom never told us. 515 00:30:10,684 --> 00:30:12,853 I think in their minds they were protecting us, 516 00:30:13,020 --> 00:30:16,440 but for us as kids, it just was scary. 517 00:30:17,441 --> 00:30:19,693 I just remember my dad being so stressed out. 518 00:30:21,695 --> 00:30:24,156 I started to realize our dream that we were chasing 519 00:30:24,323 --> 00:30:26,951 freaked a lot of people out in the church. 520 00:30:27,117 --> 00:30:29,578 You know, that's a totally different lifestyle, 521 00:30:29,745 --> 00:30:33,916 than I think they expected a pastor's son to be in. 522 00:30:34,083 --> 00:30:37,044 And they just started a whole platform 523 00:30:37,211 --> 00:30:39,088 to kind of get my dad removed. 524 00:30:48,639 --> 00:30:50,849 The day I resigned at Wyckoff 525 00:30:52,685 --> 00:30:55,062 was really... devastating. 526 00:30:56,438 --> 00:30:58,148 I couldn't even read my resignation letter. 527 00:30:59,441 --> 00:31:02,945 But I made the mistake of thinking that was just me, 528 00:31:03,112 --> 00:31:04,613 uh, that was hurting. 529 00:31:05,447 --> 00:31:07,866 I'll never forget, my parents spoke to us, 530 00:31:08,033 --> 00:31:10,494 it was, like, we're leaving the church, 531 00:31:10,661 --> 00:31:12,538 that means we're leaving the house, 532 00:31:12,705 --> 00:31:16,959 and Columbia's decided to not work with you anymore, 533 00:31:17,126 --> 00:31:18,168 to drop you. 534 00:31:19,461 --> 00:31:22,548 I remember feeling, like, scared and worried. 535 00:31:22,715 --> 00:31:25,134 That was like the world was crashing on us. 536 00:31:25,301 --> 00:31:26,635 We couldn't believe it. 537 00:31:27,469 --> 00:31:30,514 For me, it became really, really tough. 538 00:31:30,681 --> 00:31:32,266 These people that we had invested 539 00:31:32,433 --> 00:31:35,019 so much of our time and life, 540 00:31:35,185 --> 00:31:36,353 and especially my parents. 541 00:31:37,813 --> 00:31:38,939 Really disappointing. 542 00:31:39,732 --> 00:31:42,484 It was like a really brutal blow to them. 543 00:31:43,819 --> 00:31:46,530 Their whole community kind of wasn't there anymore. 544 00:31:47,656 --> 00:31:48,949 My dad at this point 545 00:31:49,116 --> 00:31:51,660 had put $90,000 of his life savings... 546 00:31:51,827 --> 00:31:53,454 essentially our college fund... 547 00:31:53,621 --> 00:31:54,705 into the band. 548 00:31:54,872 --> 00:31:55,998 Maxed out his credit cards, 549 00:31:57,291 --> 00:32:00,669 and had no money, like, we were done. 550 00:32:01,795 --> 00:32:04,798 It hit when we were already at a low, 551 00:32:04,965 --> 00:32:06,508 and took us even lower. 552 00:32:07,843 --> 00:32:09,511 We lost our home. 553 00:32:10,763 --> 00:32:13,849 We lost our friends and our social life. 554 00:32:16,685 --> 00:32:19,271 Everything they knew for 10 years of their life, gone. 555 00:32:25,444 --> 00:32:27,196 I mean, it's sort of... 556 00:32:27,363 --> 00:32:28,572 perfect. 557 00:32:28,739 --> 00:32:29,907 It's really trippy. 558 00:32:30,074 --> 00:32:31,575 I mean, literally, 30 minutes ago 559 00:32:31,742 --> 00:32:33,243 we were crunching ice cream outside Dairy Queen 560 00:32:33,410 --> 00:32:34,912 - in the sunlight. - Yeah, like it's sunny... 561 00:32:35,079 --> 00:32:38,457 like, July 3rd, all American day. 562 00:32:38,624 --> 00:32:40,709 And then it was just, like... And this is our old church. 563 00:32:40,876 --> 00:32:43,629 Fire and brimstone. 564 00:32:46,423 --> 00:32:48,634 This may sound a certain way, I don't know, 565 00:32:48,801 --> 00:32:51,053 but it's weird that we go to a place where we're not accepted. 566 00:32:52,179 --> 00:32:56,725 Like, there's two buildings in the world that I can think of 567 00:32:56,892 --> 00:32:59,311 where we're told, no, you may not enter. 568 00:32:59,478 --> 00:33:01,689 It's, like, the house we grew up in, 569 00:33:01,855 --> 00:33:03,857 and the church that we helped... 570 00:33:05,192 --> 00:33:06,110 build, you know? 571 00:33:12,574 --> 00:33:15,285 Then we leave the church and we go to this house 572 00:33:15,452 --> 00:33:17,079 in Little Falls. 573 00:33:17,246 --> 00:33:18,872 The chief of police of our town was so gracious to us, 574 00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:20,958 and rented this house to us for nothing. 575 00:33:21,583 --> 00:33:23,085 Because we didn't have an income anymore. 576 00:33:23,252 --> 00:33:25,671 We were playing roulette, you know, on the boys. 577 00:33:27,214 --> 00:33:28,465 Four boys in one bedroom, 578 00:33:28,632 --> 00:33:29,800 my parents in the other. 579 00:33:31,802 --> 00:33:33,470 The Little Falls house 580 00:33:33,637 --> 00:33:35,681 felt like we were trapped. 581 00:33:38,016 --> 00:33:41,478 We were dealing with so much at once. 582 00:33:41,645 --> 00:33:43,439 It was overwhelming. 583 00:33:46,483 --> 00:33:48,360 Our parents were fighting, like, every day. 584 00:33:49,445 --> 00:33:52,030 I constantly wanted to get out of that house, 585 00:33:52,197 --> 00:33:53,615 to get out of the vibe. 586 00:33:54,616 --> 00:33:56,452 Joe is naturally, like, 587 00:33:56,618 --> 00:33:59,580 a really sensitive, caring type of person. 588 00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:04,042 I remember when Kevin Sr. was talking to us about, 589 00:34:04,209 --> 00:34:05,711 "We hope you stick around for the ride," 590 00:34:05,878 --> 00:34:07,296 and Joe was looking at us, like, 591 00:34:07,463 --> 00:34:09,214 "Please stay with us." 592 00:34:09,381 --> 00:34:11,133 He was worried that we were gonna be upset. 593 00:34:12,551 --> 00:34:14,052 And it's, like, I'm just a dude with a gig, 594 00:34:14,219 --> 00:34:16,472 and maybe I can go get another one. 595 00:34:16,638 --> 00:34:18,682 Like, I haven't poured my entire life into this thing, 596 00:34:18,849 --> 00:34:20,476 my identity like you have. 597 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,145 But he didn't think of it that way. 598 00:34:24,730 --> 00:34:26,190 It was, like, is everyone gonna be okay? 599 00:34:26,356 --> 00:34:27,691 Are we all gonna make it together? 600 00:34:30,903 --> 00:34:33,322 Having the pressure to go out there 601 00:34:33,489 --> 00:34:36,116 and tour to make money 602 00:34:36,283 --> 00:34:39,661 became a different reality setting in, like, 603 00:34:40,746 --> 00:34:43,457 we have to do this so we can survive, 604 00:34:43,624 --> 00:34:45,667 rather than this just being, like... 605 00:34:45,834 --> 00:34:47,294 we were out there doin' it when it was like 606 00:34:47,461 --> 00:34:49,421 free and fun. 607 00:34:49,588 --> 00:34:52,549 And that's a lot of pressure for somebody that age. 608 00:34:53,175 --> 00:34:54,843 Everything was a mess. 609 00:34:55,010 --> 00:34:57,429 The label shut you down, 610 00:34:57,596 --> 00:34:58,806 you're trying to do it on your own, 611 00:34:58,972 --> 00:35:00,307 you're spending a lot of money. 612 00:35:00,474 --> 00:35:02,351 It was going to be difficult. 613 00:35:02,518 --> 00:35:03,936 Uh, we're playin' in the mall, 614 00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:05,395 super early, none of the stores are open, 615 00:35:05,562 --> 00:35:07,147 and we are getting booed by the old people 616 00:35:07,314 --> 00:35:08,816 that are walking around. 617 00:35:08,982 --> 00:35:10,776 - Senior citizens. - Senior citizens. 618 00:35:13,195 --> 00:35:14,822 The band at a certain point was, like, 619 00:35:14,988 --> 00:35:16,907 "Hey, are we gonna get paid this week?" 620 00:35:18,033 --> 00:35:20,702 And it was, like, "Okay, I'll... I'll get it covered." 621 00:35:20,869 --> 00:35:22,746 And then it was the next week. 622 00:35:22,913 --> 00:35:25,374 It was getting really tight. 623 00:35:29,503 --> 00:35:30,712 The great part about, like, 624 00:35:30,879 --> 00:35:32,548 being a young person writing music, 625 00:35:32,714 --> 00:35:36,093 is that everything is the most important thing in the world. 626 00:35:36,260 --> 00:35:38,345 Okay, one more time. 627 00:35:41,223 --> 00:35:43,684 We wrote a bunch of songs in that house 628 00:35:43,851 --> 00:35:47,521 out of the pain and the hurt and the abandonment. 629 00:35:48,522 --> 00:35:49,857 After we got dropped from Sony, 630 00:35:50,023 --> 00:35:51,817 we wrote the entire Jonas Brothers Album 631 00:35:51,984 --> 00:35:53,694 in the basement of that house. 632 00:35:53,861 --> 00:35:57,155 I think we felt that people didn't believe in us, 633 00:35:57,322 --> 00:35:58,907 so we were gonna prove 'em wrong. 634 00:36:03,328 --> 00:36:04,496 And then we got a phone call 635 00:36:04,663 --> 00:36:06,498 from Disney, 636 00:36:06,665 --> 00:36:08,417 they were, like, "We know you need something. 637 00:36:08,584 --> 00:36:10,335 "Well, we have it. 638 00:36:10,502 --> 00:36:12,045 We're gonna hand you a record deal." 639 00:36:12,212 --> 00:36:13,630 Yeah, boy! 640 00:36:13,797 --> 00:36:16,258 And at that time, it was a huge opportunity. 641 00:36:20,012 --> 00:36:21,930 But for us, it really meant 642 00:36:23,223 --> 00:36:24,516 we're getting out of Little Falls. 643 00:36:31,148 --> 00:36:32,900 We went from working with 644 00:36:33,066 --> 00:36:35,736 a company that didn't understand teens, 645 00:36:35,903 --> 00:36:38,530 to having an opportunity with a company that 646 00:36:38,697 --> 00:36:41,116 specifically spoke to that audience. 647 00:36:44,369 --> 00:36:45,913 To us, it was a no-brainer. 648 00:36:46,079 --> 00:36:46,997 So pretty. 649 00:36:47,164 --> 00:36:48,999 We're in L.A., boys. 650 00:36:49,166 --> 00:36:50,959 Where's the Hollywood sign? Is it around here? 651 00:36:52,628 --> 00:36:54,838 Kind of felt like we had a second chance. 652 00:36:55,005 --> 00:36:57,841 Like we were given another go at the plate, 653 00:36:59,343 --> 00:37:01,303 to try and hit the ball out of the park. 654 00:37:03,305 --> 00:37:04,932 Okay, go! 655 00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:07,643 When we got to Hollywood Records, 656 00:37:07,809 --> 00:37:09,686 I felt a warmth I'd never felt. 657 00:37:09,853 --> 00:37:11,980 And a desire to make it great. 658 00:37:13,565 --> 00:37:15,233 Bathrooms are down to the left, 659 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:16,818 kitchen's around to the right. 660 00:37:16,985 --> 00:37:17,903 Great. 661 00:37:24,201 --> 00:37:27,162 We were in this big, beautiful house 662 00:37:27,329 --> 00:37:29,039 with John Fields 663 00:37:29,206 --> 00:37:31,166 and just doing whatever we wanted. 664 00:37:31,333 --> 00:37:33,335 Um, this... got it all. 665 00:37:33,502 --> 00:37:36,004 He was encouraging us in our craft 666 00:37:36,171 --> 00:37:37,297 at that young age, 667 00:37:37,464 --> 00:37:38,966 and letting us play instruments, 668 00:37:39,132 --> 00:37:41,259 write songs with him. 669 00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:43,720 I knew this was gonna be special. 670 00:37:43,887 --> 00:37:46,181 You could just tell meeting the... the boys. 671 00:37:47,224 --> 00:37:48,934 It's like there is an energy there 672 00:37:49,101 --> 00:37:51,728 that is undeniable, 673 00:37:51,895 --> 00:37:53,981 and the songs were amazing. 674 00:37:54,147 --> 00:37:55,899 And it started to become this... 675 00:37:56,441 --> 00:37:58,068 sort of like little unit. 676 00:38:00,237 --> 00:38:02,322 We would play, we would write, we would sing. 677 00:38:02,489 --> 00:38:04,491 We pumped out, like, a song or two a day. 678 00:38:04,658 --> 00:38:07,869 "S.O.S.," "Hold On," "Goodnight, Goodbye," 679 00:38:08,036 --> 00:38:09,496 "Just Friends." 680 00:38:09,663 --> 00:38:13,208 It just felt so passionate and... and exciting, 681 00:38:13,375 --> 00:38:16,128 and there was nothing holding us back from creating this. 682 00:38:16,294 --> 00:38:17,963 Energy through the roof. 683 00:38:18,130 --> 00:38:22,050 Everyone was just stoked to be on this new path. 684 00:38:28,682 --> 00:38:30,851 So we're working at studio early in the morning, 685 00:38:31,018 --> 00:38:32,686 8 a.m. 'til 11:00 at night, 686 00:38:32,853 --> 00:38:36,106 and we had this song we recorded. 687 00:38:36,273 --> 00:38:38,567 Shot a music video for, but never released, 688 00:38:38,734 --> 00:38:39,901 "Year 3000." 689 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,866 It was a video we did at Columbia Records, 690 00:38:46,033 --> 00:38:47,951 and when we got dropped, we carried it with us. 691 00:38:56,835 --> 00:38:58,211 You're done watching your TV show, 692 00:38:58,378 --> 00:39:00,756 all of a sudden here's "Year 3000," 693 00:39:00,922 --> 00:39:03,550 you watch another show, here's the "Year 3000," 694 00:39:03,717 --> 00:39:05,302 and it just got played constantly. 695 00:39:10,724 --> 00:39:12,976 It was just, like, skyrocketing. 696 00:39:13,143 --> 00:39:15,062 We were, like, oh, my God. 697 00:39:17,689 --> 00:39:19,232 The next day they were top 10. 698 00:39:27,199 --> 00:39:28,867 And then we get a phone call. 699 00:39:29,034 --> 00:39:31,119 Joe has just been offered the lead in this movie 700 00:39:31,286 --> 00:39:33,288 called "Camp Rock" on the Disney Channel. 701 00:39:36,583 --> 00:39:38,376 We debated it and talked about it, 702 00:39:38,543 --> 00:39:41,463 and ultimately said, 703 00:39:41,630 --> 00:39:43,715 we can't split the brothers up. 704 00:39:43,882 --> 00:39:46,093 My dad called the president of the Disney Channel and said, 705 00:39:46,259 --> 00:39:49,262 "What if instead of just Joe, it was a band?" 706 00:39:52,974 --> 00:39:56,394 We were filming four hours north of Toronto. 707 00:39:56,561 --> 00:39:58,313 We were in no-man's land. 708 00:40:00,315 --> 00:40:01,983 When I was acting on TV, 709 00:40:03,026 --> 00:40:04,820 I felt like that was my zone. 710 00:40:05,570 --> 00:40:07,781 I really enjoyed myself. 711 00:40:07,948 --> 00:40:09,658 I mean, Kevin and I were barely in it, 712 00:40:09,825 --> 00:40:12,619 but you're 13 years old and you get to go make a movie, 713 00:40:12,786 --> 00:40:14,621 it was incredible. 714 00:40:15,372 --> 00:40:17,999 But what we didn't know was that 715 00:40:18,166 --> 00:40:21,294 in America, the band was... 716 00:40:22,129 --> 00:40:23,421 blowing up. 717 00:40:27,134 --> 00:40:29,594 Don't forget the marionette show. 718 00:40:29,761 --> 00:40:32,681 And it sure is a lot of fun for the kiddoes. 719 00:40:32,848 --> 00:40:34,558 I receive a phone call from the promoter 720 00:40:34,724 --> 00:40:36,226 of the Texas State Fair, 721 00:40:36,393 --> 00:40:40,272 and he said there was a traffic jam to Oklahoma. 722 00:40:41,648 --> 00:40:42,899 We just assumed, like, oh, well, 723 00:40:43,066 --> 00:40:44,693 everyone's just trying to get there. 724 00:40:44,860 --> 00:40:47,028 They're, like, no, it's the concert you guys are putting on. 725 00:40:48,113 --> 00:40:49,573 What? 726 00:40:49,739 --> 00:40:51,199 He said, "I'm sending helicopters." 727 00:40:51,366 --> 00:40:53,285 I thought the guy was crazy. 728 00:40:53,451 --> 00:40:55,954 And he said, "You don't understand." 729 00:40:57,747 --> 00:40:59,249 I remember getting in the helicopter 730 00:40:59,416 --> 00:41:02,085 and looking down at the crowd, 731 00:41:02,252 --> 00:41:04,212 and thinking, "Oh, this... that must not... 732 00:41:04,379 --> 00:41:05,547 that's someone else's stage." 733 00:41:05,714 --> 00:41:07,424 Oh, my God! 734 00:41:08,675 --> 00:41:10,093 There was more people than I've ever seen in my life, 735 00:41:10,260 --> 00:41:12,596 just thousands of people. 736 00:41:12,762 --> 00:41:14,806 We had no idea that, like, people were getting excited 737 00:41:14,973 --> 00:41:16,183 about the Jonas Brothers. 738 00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:18,393 Well, we found out that day. 739 00:41:19,352 --> 00:41:21,146 The boys walked on stage. 740 00:41:21,313 --> 00:41:23,815 There's no way to describe that sound. 741 00:41:30,030 --> 00:41:31,531 The roar that went up. 742 00:41:35,452 --> 00:41:37,454 Everything was different. 743 00:41:46,046 --> 00:41:47,547 I also remember us being shocked 744 00:41:47,714 --> 00:41:48,798 at how many people knew our words to our songs. 745 00:41:50,342 --> 00:41:52,469 They were singing our music back to us. 746 00:41:52,636 --> 00:41:54,137 We were, like, they're fans. 747 00:41:54,304 --> 00:41:55,513 These are not just people that came to this, 748 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,307 these are 50,000 fans. 749 00:42:00,685 --> 00:42:02,020 It was so validating 750 00:42:02,187 --> 00:42:03,980 to how much sacrifice had gone into it, 751 00:42:04,147 --> 00:42:05,899 and to the family being able to fight through 752 00:42:06,066 --> 00:42:08,193 those tough seasons 753 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,320 to be able to get to the other side of that, 754 00:42:10,487 --> 00:42:12,489 and see them get on stage. 755 00:42:12,656 --> 00:42:14,866 It was one of the most incredible moments of my career. 756 00:42:15,033 --> 00:42:16,534 Hey, what's up, everybody? We're the Jonas Brothers. 757 00:42:16,701 --> 00:42:17,535 - I'm Nick. - I'm Kevin. 758 00:42:17,702 --> 00:42:18,870 I'm Joe. 759 00:42:19,037 --> 00:42:21,081 And you are on our Myspace page. 760 00:42:21,248 --> 00:42:23,124 Listen, guys. One week our album's coming out. 761 00:42:23,291 --> 00:42:25,001 This is... I'm gonna run in traffic. 762 00:42:25,168 --> 00:42:27,671 We embraced the internet 763 00:42:28,838 --> 00:42:30,924 in a way that I... I don't think 764 00:42:31,091 --> 00:42:32,884 a lot of people had before us. 765 00:42:33,927 --> 00:42:35,929 We were making 15 second videos 766 00:42:36,096 --> 00:42:37,514 on YouTube. 767 00:42:37,681 --> 00:42:39,140 Like, one was, we walk into a room, 768 00:42:39,307 --> 00:42:40,558 turn a table around. 769 00:42:41,601 --> 00:42:43,561 Oh, how the tables have turned. 770 00:42:46,106 --> 00:42:47,732 Just look into the camera. That's the video. 771 00:42:47,899 --> 00:42:49,442 Hey. I'm Nick Jonas. 772 00:42:50,235 --> 00:42:52,487 And today we're talking about anger. 773 00:42:54,948 --> 00:42:57,659 We actually really comment you guys on Myspace. 774 00:42:57,826 --> 00:42:59,828 It's actually us. We are actually sitting there. 775 00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:01,579 And we started growing such a big fan base. 776 00:43:01,746 --> 00:43:03,290 I think there was a hundred followers on Myspace, 777 00:43:03,456 --> 00:43:04,374 and we freaked out. 778 00:43:04,541 --> 00:43:06,209 Yeah! Jonas Brothers! 779 00:43:06,376 --> 00:43:07,752 And then a few thousand, and we were, like, 780 00:43:07,919 --> 00:43:09,587 "Wow, it was, like, happening." 781 00:43:09,754 --> 00:43:11,756 - Hey, we're the Jonas Brothers. - And we want to tell you 782 00:43:11,923 --> 00:43:13,800 that we want to go on a date with you. 783 00:43:13,967 --> 00:43:15,844 We want to go on a date, we're gonna hold hands, 784 00:43:16,011 --> 00:43:18,722 we wanna just walk on the beach, whatever it is. 785 00:43:20,098 --> 00:43:21,891 Bill, the Jonas Brothers have no idea 786 00:43:22,058 --> 00:43:23,393 what they've gotten themselves into. 787 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,020 How much did you sleep last night? 788 00:43:25,729 --> 00:43:28,523 Um, probably about two hours at most. 789 00:43:30,442 --> 00:43:33,820 I think my brothers and I became closest 790 00:43:33,987 --> 00:43:37,824 when we found a common ground 791 00:43:37,991 --> 00:43:39,909 beyond music and family. 792 00:43:41,703 --> 00:43:43,788 Girls. 793 00:43:43,955 --> 00:43:45,790 Do you have a favorite Jonas brother? 794 00:43:45,957 --> 00:43:48,460 - Not yet. We like 'em all. They're hot. -Yeah. 795 00:43:48,626 --> 00:43:50,420 Yeah, they're all pretty hot. 796 00:43:50,587 --> 00:43:52,839 I love Joe and, um, he should come and meet me, please. 797 00:43:53,006 --> 00:43:54,341 I love you, Nick. 798 00:43:54,507 --> 00:43:55,884 Oh! 799 00:43:56,051 --> 00:43:57,677 Kevin, don't get married. 800 00:43:57,844 --> 00:43:59,512 Please. I'll wait for you. 801 00:44:00,472 --> 00:44:02,599 While I was in high school, I couldn't get a date 802 00:44:02,766 --> 00:44:04,059 no matter how much I tried. 803 00:44:04,225 --> 00:44:05,226 I could not get a date. 804 00:44:06,561 --> 00:44:08,730 After the Disney Channel played our music video, 805 00:44:09,522 --> 00:44:11,524 life immediately changes as a teenager for me. 806 00:44:23,787 --> 00:44:26,748 I would hug you but, it would be a little... 807 00:44:26,915 --> 00:44:29,084 Me and Joe were, like, wing-manning each other constantly. 808 00:44:29,250 --> 00:44:31,169 - Write me on Myspace. - Okay. Of course. 809 00:44:35,131 --> 00:44:36,591 We got to be on the "Hannah Montana" episode 810 00:44:36,758 --> 00:44:37,842 on the Disney Channel. 811 00:44:38,009 --> 00:44:40,303 Great mama, it's the Jonas Brothers! 812 00:44:41,012 --> 00:44:43,264 That changed girls for Nick forever. 813 00:44:44,182 --> 00:44:45,517 Wow. You're pretty. 814 00:44:45,683 --> 00:44:47,227 Nice save. I'm Kevin. 815 00:44:47,394 --> 00:44:48,311 We met Miley, 816 00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:50,563 I think that kid's head exploded. 817 00:44:52,690 --> 00:44:54,818 I started writing about love, 818 00:44:56,528 --> 00:44:58,238 and I actually knew what it felt like, you know. 819 00:45:44,868 --> 00:45:46,411 For the first time, I was asking them 820 00:45:46,578 --> 00:45:48,496 the kinds of questions that only a younger brother 821 00:45:48,663 --> 00:45:50,081 can ask their older brothers. 822 00:45:53,668 --> 00:45:55,837 Hey, Danielle, it's Kevin. 823 00:45:56,004 --> 00:45:57,672 How are you? 824 00:45:58,339 --> 00:45:59,799 Rockin', I want to give you 825 00:45:59,966 --> 00:46:02,510 a little bit more information about tonight if I can, 826 00:46:02,677 --> 00:46:06,139 So, um, great doors open at 9:00, 827 00:46:06,306 --> 00:46:08,391 so we go on, I think at 10. 828 00:46:09,809 --> 00:46:12,103 or shortly there... soon around. 829 00:46:12,270 --> 00:46:14,564 And, um... and if there's any issues, 830 00:46:14,731 --> 00:46:16,524 I'm gonna give you a number right now to call. 831 00:46:16,691 --> 00:46:17,692 She's our... She... 832 00:46:21,988 --> 00:46:23,823 No, no, I know I'm moving, like, a million miles an hour. 833 00:46:23,990 --> 00:46:26,117 I'm... I'm having a lot... 834 00:46:26,284 --> 00:46:28,244 But I'm just so excited for you to... 835 00:46:28,411 --> 00:46:29,537 to see you tonight, so... 836 00:46:33,291 --> 00:46:35,418 Okay, the number is... 837 00:46:37,295 --> 00:46:39,380 - 810... - Yes. 838 00:46:39,547 --> 00:46:41,216 - Okay. - 8622 839 00:46:43,218 --> 00:46:44,636 Yes! He did it. 840 00:46:44,802 --> 00:46:46,304 Um, this is... Her name is Felicia. 841 00:46:46,471 --> 00:46:47,722 - She handles all of our... - Oh, there you go. 842 00:46:47,889 --> 00:46:49,182 You know, she's with us, she like a... 843 00:46:49,349 --> 00:46:51,267 I don't want to call her a personal assistant. 844 00:46:51,434 --> 00:46:53,520 That's good, that's good. 845 00:46:53,686 --> 00:46:55,438 Yeah, essentially, yeah. She takes care of all that stuff. 846 00:46:55,605 --> 00:46:58,816 Um, so, sweet, that is the number to call, I hope, 847 00:46:58,983 --> 00:47:00,693 and I can't wait to see you. 848 00:47:02,737 --> 00:47:05,156 Not a problem. No, no, no, it's not gonna be a problem, 849 00:47:05,323 --> 00:47:07,659 uh, just, you know, 10:00 we hit the stage. 850 00:47:08,618 --> 00:47:09,911 So be there or be square. 851 00:47:12,580 --> 00:47:14,374 Oh, wow. 852 00:47:14,541 --> 00:47:16,501 Yeah, that's... that's totally cool, I hear you. 853 00:47:16,668 --> 00:47:18,836 No, um, I think... And then we're hanging out a little after, 854 00:47:19,003 --> 00:47:21,130 like, I think there might be a little chill out time 855 00:47:21,297 --> 00:47:22,757 after the show. Stop. 856 00:47:24,676 --> 00:47:26,010 Okay. 857 00:47:26,177 --> 00:47:28,096 Rockin', I will see you in a little while, then. 858 00:47:29,430 --> 00:47:30,473 Awesome, bye. 859 00:47:31,391 --> 00:47:33,726 - Good job. - You... Don't talk to me 860 00:47:33,893 --> 00:47:35,228 while I'm on the phone anymore. 861 00:47:35,395 --> 00:47:36,729 - Sorry for... - We're just really excited, 862 00:47:36,896 --> 00:47:37,939 because she's your wife. 863 00:47:45,071 --> 00:47:47,323 I mean, they're almost out of room. 864 00:47:51,077 --> 00:47:52,412 They're on the... 865 00:47:52,579 --> 00:47:53,788 I know, they... they see you. 866 00:47:53,955 --> 00:47:55,623 Guys, ready? Watch this. 867 00:47:55,790 --> 00:47:57,292 That's unbelievable. They see you. 868 00:48:07,635 --> 00:48:09,220 The line in the... 869 00:48:10,138 --> 00:48:12,890 So far, and is huge, packed. 870 00:48:13,057 --> 00:48:16,227 They said there's 15 right now, 15,000. 871 00:48:17,061 --> 00:48:18,313 A lot of people. 872 00:48:18,938 --> 00:48:20,231 Wow. 873 00:48:26,112 --> 00:48:29,157 The Big Apple has never seen dedication quite like this. 874 00:48:29,991 --> 00:48:33,119 These die-hard fans have been here since Tuesday morning. 875 00:48:33,286 --> 00:48:34,746 You're some of the biggest Jonas fans here, huh? 876 00:48:34,912 --> 00:48:36,497 Yeah! 877 00:48:36,664 --> 00:48:38,082 All for their chance to see Kevin... 878 00:48:38,249 --> 00:48:39,500 We definitely hit a tipping point 879 00:48:39,667 --> 00:48:42,253 where we entered a new stratosphere. 880 00:48:42,420 --> 00:48:44,464 It was uncharted territory for all of us. 881 00:48:44,631 --> 00:48:46,257 We're in Times Square. 882 00:48:46,424 --> 00:48:48,551 We are waiting for the Jonas Brothers 883 00:48:48,718 --> 00:48:51,137 "A Little Bit Longer" CDs to come out at midnight. 884 00:48:51,304 --> 00:48:52,847 Every time we would release an album, 885 00:48:53,014 --> 00:48:54,766 we would go to Times Square and celebrate. 886 00:48:54,932 --> 00:48:58,603 Wait in line at midnight and hold it in our hands. 887 00:48:58,770 --> 00:49:00,772 7:30, that's like, five more hours... 888 00:49:00,938 --> 00:49:02,357 four and a half more hours until they come. 889 00:49:02,523 --> 00:49:04,359 We release "A Little Bit Longer," 890 00:49:04,525 --> 00:49:06,819 and, just like tradition, we go to Virgin Megastore in Times Square. 891 00:49:06,986 --> 00:49:09,572 Whoo! 892 00:49:09,739 --> 00:49:11,866 So two years prior, there's eight people there. 893 00:49:12,033 --> 00:49:15,036 The next year there was maybe 30 or 40 people there. 894 00:49:17,121 --> 00:49:18,956 Let's go. Let's roll. 895 00:49:19,123 --> 00:49:20,625 This time, it's a little different. 896 00:49:20,792 --> 00:49:22,960 Seriously, like, for safety, 897 00:49:23,127 --> 00:49:25,254 if we say we gotta go, that means we gotta go. 898 00:49:25,421 --> 00:49:27,256 Before we even left, we were getting calls 899 00:49:27,423 --> 00:49:29,467 that it was complete pandemonium. 900 00:49:29,634 --> 00:49:31,052 I'm gonna tell you straight, 901 00:49:31,219 --> 00:49:32,720 stick to us like white on rice. Okay? 902 00:49:35,515 --> 00:49:36,974 Is he all right or is he... 903 00:49:38,393 --> 00:49:40,728 - She is so happy. - I hear people. 904 00:49:40,895 --> 00:49:41,979 Oh, my gosh. This is incredible. 905 00:49:42,146 --> 00:49:43,481 Like, it's actually happening. 906 00:49:43,648 --> 00:49:46,901 - Holy cow. - Oh, my God. Wow. 907 00:49:47,860 --> 00:49:49,070 - Look at those barricades in the middle of the street. -Are you kidding me? 908 00:49:49,237 --> 00:49:50,697 Are you kidding me? 909 00:49:54,367 --> 00:49:57,245 Oh, my... Yes! 910 00:49:57,412 --> 00:49:59,539 You may have to walk us in like the pope, man. 911 00:49:59,706 --> 00:50:01,916 I don't know that we're gonna be able to go through this crowd. 912 00:50:02,834 --> 00:50:05,211 - Goodness! - Oh, my... 913 00:50:05,378 --> 00:50:08,297 - It's New Year's Eve. - I've never seen anything like this. 914 00:50:16,681 --> 00:50:18,307 Open the doors here. 915 00:50:18,474 --> 00:50:20,184 This is incredible. 916 00:50:20,351 --> 00:50:21,936 Oh, my God, there are so many people here. 917 00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:42,832 You see outside? 918 00:50:42,999 --> 00:50:44,792 Boys. 919 00:50:47,170 --> 00:50:48,671 We shut down Times Square 920 00:50:48,838 --> 00:50:49,922 for seven to ten minutes. 921 00:50:51,382 --> 00:50:54,260 There had to have been over 20,000 plus people there. 922 00:50:54,427 --> 00:50:57,764 No movement, cars, people, the fire department. 923 00:50:59,056 --> 00:51:00,183 It's just... We thought it was just mayhem. 924 00:51:01,350 --> 00:51:03,352 2007 started off with us playing 925 00:51:03,519 --> 00:51:05,188 in food courts in malls. 926 00:51:05,897 --> 00:51:09,192 And we went to theaters and arenas 927 00:51:09,358 --> 00:51:11,611 in a really short amount of time. 928 00:51:12,153 --> 00:51:13,362 Something close to a mob scene 929 00:51:13,529 --> 00:51:14,614 in Sacramento this afternoon. 930 00:51:26,250 --> 00:51:27,877 The pace that it's growing at right now... 931 00:51:28,044 --> 00:51:29,337 it's goin' so fast. 932 00:51:29,504 --> 00:51:30,922 I mean, I've been doing this 14 years, 933 00:51:31,088 --> 00:51:32,924 and the things that we're doing with these... 934 00:51:33,090 --> 00:51:34,801 I... I've never done before in my life. 935 00:51:34,967 --> 00:51:36,427 These guys put a tour on sale 936 00:51:36,594 --> 00:51:38,429 and they sell clean at Madison Square Garden, 937 00:51:38,596 --> 00:51:40,139 and they're, like, we're gonna add another date, 938 00:51:40,306 --> 00:51:42,016 and they sell clean at Madison Square Garden, 939 00:51:42,183 --> 00:51:44,101 like, we're gonna add a third date, and they sell that clean, 940 00:51:44,268 --> 00:51:45,603 and we didn't have room to add a fourth. 941 00:51:45,770 --> 00:51:47,188 Please welcome the Jonas Brothers! 942 00:51:47,355 --> 00:51:49,065 - Jonas Brothers! - Jonas Brothers! 943 00:51:49,232 --> 00:51:50,233 Jonas Brothers. 944 00:51:51,651 --> 00:51:53,945 Ladies and gentlemen, the Jonas Brothers 945 00:51:54,111 --> 00:51:57,031 They had three albums in the top ten, 946 00:51:57,198 --> 00:51:58,574 a gold record in a week, 947 00:51:58,741 --> 00:52:00,159 "Camp Rock" went platinum, 948 00:52:00,326 --> 00:52:01,828 they're first album went platinum, 949 00:52:01,994 --> 00:52:04,372 this record was going multi-platinum. 950 00:52:04,539 --> 00:52:06,791 The Grammy nominees for the Best New Artist are 951 00:52:06,958 --> 00:52:08,584 the Jonas Brothers. 952 00:52:08,751 --> 00:52:10,795 Right now, we're making a demo with Stevie Wonder. 953 00:52:10,962 --> 00:52:12,255 We're performing with him on the Grammys. 954 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,466 And to have Stevie Wonder out there playing it with us, 955 00:52:15,633 --> 00:52:17,218 is gonna be absolutely amazing. 956 00:52:17,385 --> 00:52:19,637 These are the nominees for the Best New Artist. 957 00:52:19,804 --> 00:52:20,638 Come on, Stevie! 958 00:52:26,644 --> 00:52:28,354 How you doin'? You feel good, you feel great? 959 00:52:28,521 --> 00:52:29,272 I can't stop smiling. 960 00:52:30,231 --> 00:52:31,566 I don't know, you can't make this shit up. 961 00:52:31,732 --> 00:52:33,442 The experiences are priceless. 962 00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:37,530 I mean, we were on an airplane playing our new album 963 00:52:37,697 --> 00:52:40,199 before our other album had come out 964 00:52:40,366 --> 00:52:41,909 while the numbers were coming in for the tour. 965 00:52:44,704 --> 00:52:47,707 And it was like, "We just sold out Idaho," 966 00:52:47,874 --> 00:52:49,876 as we were, like, listening to the new record. 967 00:52:50,042 --> 00:52:51,586 It's like stuff that's in a movie. 968 00:52:51,752 --> 00:52:53,504 but it was really... it was happening. 969 00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:57,508 I mean, think about it. 970 00:52:57,675 --> 00:52:59,719 Two years ago, we're in a minivan touring. 971 00:53:00,636 --> 00:53:05,892 And now we're chartering a 757 to go on tour. 972 00:53:06,058 --> 00:53:07,226 It's... It's just insane. 973 00:53:10,813 --> 00:53:12,773 Hey, there's no other way to put it. 974 00:53:14,066 --> 00:53:16,527 Literally, like, pinch me, this is happening, like, oh, my gosh. 975 00:53:16,694 --> 00:53:19,280 And, like, Joe would be, like, "Dude, this is crazy," 976 00:53:19,447 --> 00:53:21,949 like the energy was... was unimaginable. 977 00:53:23,868 --> 00:53:26,746 I dreamed of being on a chart. 978 00:53:28,205 --> 00:53:30,291 The fact that we were on "the chart" 979 00:53:30,458 --> 00:53:31,584 was just amazing. 980 00:53:54,607 --> 00:53:57,443 I think that fans fell in love with the brothers 981 00:53:57,610 --> 00:54:00,154 because they represented something to them. 982 00:54:00,321 --> 00:54:02,782 I think that they meant more than the music. 983 00:54:02,949 --> 00:54:04,992 I think that they meant more than the concert. 984 00:54:05,701 --> 00:54:07,662 You know, they were such a positive force. 985 00:54:07,828 --> 00:54:09,830 People really appreciated that. 986 00:54:11,707 --> 00:54:13,542 It was amazing to see... 987 00:54:14,627 --> 00:54:17,838 amidst unstoppable... 988 00:54:18,673 --> 00:54:20,424 ascent to fame... 989 00:54:20,591 --> 00:54:23,511 the continuous gratitude from these guys. 990 00:54:23,678 --> 00:54:27,056 They were never taking anything for granted. 991 00:54:27,223 --> 00:54:30,351 What was crazy for me was these songs that we'd written 992 00:54:31,268 --> 00:54:34,438 in a two and a half bedroom house 993 00:54:35,439 --> 00:54:36,816 in Little Falls, New Jersey, 994 00:54:37,692 --> 00:54:43,406 um, were being sung by 70, 80,000 people 995 00:54:43,572 --> 00:54:46,826 in countries where English was not the first language. 996 00:54:56,961 --> 00:54:59,255 One of the few times I wish I could go back and just 997 00:54:59,422 --> 00:55:00,673 relive that experience, 998 00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:02,508 because it was so mind blowing 999 00:55:02,675 --> 00:55:03,926 and such a beautiful sight. 1000 00:55:05,344 --> 00:55:06,929 Three guys from Jersey 1001 00:55:07,096 --> 00:55:11,392 that, like, really never had much, 1002 00:55:11,559 --> 00:55:15,187 to now, all of a sudden, have fame and people know your name. 1003 00:55:15,354 --> 00:55:17,189 Like, it felt cool. 1004 00:55:19,734 --> 00:55:21,360 I don't think I really 1005 00:55:21,527 --> 00:55:23,195 processed the magnitude of it. 1006 00:55:39,045 --> 00:55:40,463 Jonas Brothers are here. 1007 00:55:42,965 --> 00:55:44,508 Sasha and Malia are huge fans. 1008 00:56:12,912 --> 00:56:13,954 Jonas! 1009 00:56:31,138 --> 00:56:33,933 At a certain point, it was so big. 1010 00:56:35,935 --> 00:56:37,436 It was insane. 1011 00:56:42,525 --> 00:56:43,692 It shifted from being, like, 1012 00:56:43,859 --> 00:56:45,694 this hype is super cool to... 1013 00:56:47,113 --> 00:56:48,864 should we be, like, scared? 1014 00:57:03,129 --> 00:57:04,755 I think what started to happen 1015 00:57:04,922 --> 00:57:07,758 is that it gets so big that you can't control it. 1016 00:57:14,473 --> 00:57:16,308 And there's too many moving parts. 1017 00:57:16,475 --> 00:57:19,061 Instead of bringing in more people that they trusted, 1018 00:57:19,228 --> 00:57:22,148 They each took on more themselves. 1019 00:57:26,110 --> 00:57:27,361 Joe, where are we going? 1020 00:57:27,528 --> 00:57:29,196 Uh, we're going to... 1021 00:57:30,322 --> 00:57:32,783 catering, but we're going to do interviews. 1022 00:57:33,868 --> 00:57:36,078 It always felt like it could go away in the blink of an eye. 1023 00:57:36,829 --> 00:57:39,665 That's why we did every interview, we did every meet-and-greet. 1024 00:57:41,041 --> 00:57:43,252 We really never said no to the point of exhaustion. 1025 00:57:47,047 --> 00:57:49,508 This game I played a few days ago 1026 00:57:49,675 --> 00:57:51,594 it's fun 'cause it's questions 1027 00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:53,512 we either have to answer ourselves 1028 00:57:53,679 --> 00:57:56,473 or it might be directed towards everybody else. 1029 00:57:57,641 --> 00:58:01,353 And I think you take a big gulp of your drink 1030 00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:05,149 if two people know 1031 00:58:05,316 --> 00:58:07,067 that you didn't answer fully honestly. 1032 00:58:09,153 --> 00:58:10,446 That work? The more we drink, 1033 00:58:10,613 --> 00:58:12,823 the more the questions are gonna be answered, 1034 00:58:12,990 --> 00:58:13,991 so... 1035 00:58:14,158 --> 00:58:15,117 Joe. 1036 00:58:17,203 --> 00:58:18,412 Okay. 1037 00:58:19,538 --> 00:58:22,333 "Is there someone in your life you hold real resentment towards?" 1038 00:58:23,959 --> 00:58:26,837 - Uh, yeah, the ballerina that... - 1039 00:58:27,004 --> 00:58:28,380 That talked about your small penis? 1040 00:58:31,675 --> 00:58:33,177 She talked about my penis, she didn't... I don't... 1041 00:58:33,344 --> 00:58:35,179 She didn't talk about a small penis. 1042 00:58:37,848 --> 00:58:39,600 That ballerina, to this day 1043 00:58:39,767 --> 00:58:40,851 I think she was talkin' shit, and I don't... 1044 00:58:41,018 --> 00:58:42,186 I'm not cool with it. 1045 00:58:44,897 --> 00:58:46,523 - Drink all that. - Drink it all. 1046 00:58:46,690 --> 00:58:48,317 That was the truth, though. 1047 00:58:48,484 --> 00:58:50,402 Doesn't matter. It's a terrible answer. 1048 00:58:50,569 --> 00:58:53,072 Ready? One, two, three... 1049 00:58:53,239 --> 00:58:54,657 Boom! Nick. 1050 00:58:55,366 --> 00:58:56,450 Bowl it. 1051 00:58:58,535 --> 00:59:00,371 "Do you regret anything?" Yeah, of course. 1052 00:59:00,537 --> 00:59:03,082 Regret, like, so much shit all the time. 1053 00:59:03,249 --> 00:59:06,418 Let's say specifically to this... the Brothers. 1054 00:59:07,711 --> 00:59:09,255 Well, yeah, I mean, it's all encompassing. 1055 00:59:09,421 --> 00:59:12,800 Um, biggest regret in regards to the Brothers. 1056 00:59:14,635 --> 00:59:17,763 Um... season two of "Jonas." 1057 00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:20,641 That's a big regret. 1058 00:59:21,475 --> 00:59:22,810 We shouldn't have done that. 1059 00:59:22,977 --> 00:59:24,353 It really stunted our growth, you know? 1060 00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:26,063 I feel like it was... 1061 00:59:26,230 --> 00:59:27,314 just a bad move. 1062 00:59:28,482 --> 00:59:31,318 - Yeah. -Like, it was just not the time and... 1063 00:59:31,485 --> 00:59:34,571 Literally, we... we couldn't evolve because of it. 1064 00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:41,829 The way it was presented to us was 1065 00:59:41,996 --> 00:59:44,290 the show will help continue the brand around the world. 1066 00:59:44,456 --> 00:59:46,625 It'll keep it relevant in the times you can't tour. 1067 00:59:46,792 --> 00:59:48,877 Let's not be those guys who wear their sunglasses at night. 1068 00:59:53,382 --> 00:59:54,341 The show was not good. 1069 00:59:57,845 --> 00:59:59,305 It didn't feel like it was us anymore. 1070 00:59:59,471 --> 01:00:01,140 It felt young. 1071 01:00:01,932 --> 01:00:03,851 And... And we're becoming adults. 1072 01:00:05,436 --> 01:00:06,770 It was not on brand for us, 1073 01:00:06,937 --> 01:00:08,063 as, like, the band that we were becoming, 1074 01:00:08,230 --> 01:00:09,523 the songs we were writing. 1075 01:00:11,025 --> 01:00:12,860 It was almost like two very different identities. 1076 01:00:13,610 --> 01:00:14,862 It was made for eight-year-olds, 1077 01:00:15,029 --> 01:00:16,238 or ten-year-olds. 1078 01:00:16,989 --> 01:00:18,699 It just was going to make you uncool. 1079 01:00:19,366 --> 01:00:21,535 I think that affected the perception of the band, 1080 01:00:21,702 --> 01:00:23,120 that we were a joke, 1081 01:00:23,287 --> 01:00:24,246 this is... They're not real, they're robots. 1082 01:00:24,413 --> 01:00:25,289 And then it was... 1083 01:00:25,456 --> 01:00:26,999 And cut. 1084 01:00:27,166 --> 01:00:28,834 Great video shoot, guys. 1085 01:00:29,001 --> 01:00:30,461 This is bull puckey! 1086 01:00:30,627 --> 01:00:32,296 Yeah, we've had it, gosh darn it! 1087 01:00:32,463 --> 01:00:34,131 "South Park" did an episode about 1088 01:00:34,298 --> 01:00:36,050 Disney and the purity rings. 1089 01:00:37,468 --> 01:00:38,802 What's all this I'm hearing about 1090 01:00:38,969 --> 01:00:40,804 not wearing the purity rings? 1091 01:00:40,971 --> 01:00:43,515 They were saying Disney created a band 1092 01:00:43,682 --> 01:00:45,893 who are these cookie-cutter boy band brothers, 1093 01:00:46,810 --> 01:00:51,774 that everything was perfect, and they used Christianity and purity rings 1094 01:00:51,940 --> 01:00:54,151 as a way to sell music to kids. 1095 01:00:54,318 --> 01:00:56,570 Well, we don't want to be selling sex to little girls anymore. 1096 01:00:56,737 --> 01:00:58,530 Rings stay on. 1097 01:00:58,697 --> 01:01:00,866 Maybe we'll just refuse to go on stage. 1098 01:01:03,619 --> 01:01:04,620 I mean... 1099 01:01:05,329 --> 01:01:06,747 they weren't far off, that's for sure. 1100 01:01:06,914 --> 01:01:09,750 God's favorite virgins, the Jonas Brothers, 1101 01:01:09,917 --> 01:01:13,170 will be performing at the VMAs this year. 1102 01:01:13,337 --> 01:01:14,338 Oh, my God! 1103 01:01:16,382 --> 01:01:19,009 In the church, it was encouraged that we go through this program, 1104 01:01:19,176 --> 01:01:21,929 and it was, like, wait for the right person and wait 'til marriage. 1105 01:01:22,096 --> 01:01:24,014 All the kids that I grew up with were doing it, 1106 01:01:24,181 --> 01:01:25,099 so I was, like, oh, this is cool. 1107 01:01:27,267 --> 01:01:28,602 Probably by, like, I don't know, 15, 1108 01:01:28,769 --> 01:01:29,895 I was like, what? 1109 01:01:30,062 --> 01:01:31,480 What is this? 1110 01:01:31,647 --> 01:01:33,565 The property has six bedrooms, 1111 01:01:33,732 --> 01:01:36,193 and it's located in a gated community. 1112 01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,320 Why do three virgins need six bedrooms 1113 01:01:38,487 --> 01:01:40,697 is what I want to know. 1114 01:01:40,864 --> 01:01:42,699 That was not who we were, like, it was just 1115 01:01:42,866 --> 01:01:45,202 something that we did when we were young kids, 1116 01:01:45,369 --> 01:01:47,413 but we wore the rings through 1117 01:01:47,579 --> 01:01:50,582 the first bit of the band starting to explode. 1118 01:01:50,749 --> 01:01:52,709 At that point, it was already too late because it was in the media. 1119 01:01:52,876 --> 01:01:55,629 In case you were unaware, each of the Jonas brothers 1120 01:01:55,796 --> 01:01:58,048 does wear a tiny ring 1121 01:01:58,215 --> 01:02:00,384 as a mark of their commitment to God. 1122 01:02:00,551 --> 01:02:02,052 I'd take it a little bit more seriously 1123 01:02:02,219 --> 01:02:03,303 if they wore it on their genitals. 1124 01:02:04,513 --> 01:02:06,181 We had all of this success, 1125 01:02:06,348 --> 01:02:08,851 and that's the only thing we could, like, hear or focus on. 1126 01:02:09,017 --> 01:02:10,352 What things that people were saying about us. 1127 01:02:12,563 --> 01:02:13,939 It was embarrassing 1128 01:02:14,106 --> 01:02:18,026 to be aware of this joke in real life with people. 1129 01:02:19,778 --> 01:02:21,488 When I would go to a sporting event, 1130 01:02:22,656 --> 01:02:24,867 and they would put me on the jumbotron or us, whatever, 1131 01:02:25,033 --> 01:02:26,326 they would boo us. 1132 01:02:27,619 --> 01:02:30,747 As a sports fanatic, I would be so hurt 1133 01:02:30,914 --> 01:02:32,624 'cause I was, like, I am one of you. 1134 01:02:33,876 --> 01:02:35,502 I'm just like you. 1135 01:02:37,004 --> 01:02:39,006 It's funny 'cause, like, we never really, 1136 01:02:39,173 --> 01:02:40,757 like, talked about the disappointment of those things. 1137 01:02:40,924 --> 01:02:42,801 You know, we always just went into more work. 1138 01:02:48,849 --> 01:02:52,728 It created a recipe for fear and paranoia, 1139 01:02:52,895 --> 01:02:54,354 and insecurity. 1140 01:02:56,482 --> 01:02:58,525 I think it started to take its toll on the guys. 1141 01:03:04,823 --> 01:03:06,658 Do you think that's when things started changing? 1142 01:03:09,328 --> 01:03:11,538 I think I became frustrated because... 1143 01:03:12,873 --> 01:03:15,626 I was in those sessions to write the music, 1144 01:03:15,792 --> 01:03:18,754 and, like, you guys didn't want to do that, 1145 01:03:18,921 --> 01:03:20,756 and so I just felt, like, a little bit of resentment, 1146 01:03:20,923 --> 01:03:23,217 that seed of getting angry that you guys weren't... 1147 01:03:24,134 --> 01:03:25,260 in it with me there 1148 01:03:25,427 --> 01:03:26,929 - Mm-hm. - creatively felt shitty. 1149 01:03:28,597 --> 01:03:30,349 The way I said it is after this year, 1150 01:03:30,516 --> 01:03:31,517 we need some... 1151 01:03:32,392 --> 01:03:34,353 - There needs to be a legit... -Pause. 1152 01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:35,604 Like, think about it. 1153 01:03:40,526 --> 01:03:42,861 Felt like it was just a ticking time bomb. 1154 01:03:43,028 --> 01:03:44,613 - Let's go. - A reality we might 1155 01:03:44,780 --> 01:03:47,032 have to face in our... in our artistry as well as... 1156 01:03:47,199 --> 01:03:48,867 that this record we're doing right now 1157 01:03:49,034 --> 01:03:50,953 might not be as big as "A Little Bit Longer." 1158 01:03:51,119 --> 01:03:54,081 Do you think that one of you might turn out to be, 1159 01:03:54,248 --> 01:03:55,874 uh, like Justin Timberlake 1160 01:03:56,041 --> 01:03:57,960 and break away from the group? 1161 01:03:58,126 --> 01:03:59,670 - Joe? - You know, 1162 01:03:59,836 --> 01:04:02,089 we always talk about solo projects... 1163 01:04:02,256 --> 01:04:03,966 - Mm-hm. - And I think for us, 1164 01:04:05,259 --> 01:04:06,510 it would never be a solo project, 1165 01:04:06,677 --> 01:04:07,886 - it would be a side project. - Really? 1166 01:04:08,053 --> 01:04:09,596 There's no way we can just break up 1167 01:04:09,763 --> 01:04:11,974 because, I mean, I live in the same house as them, 1168 01:04:12,140 --> 01:04:13,725 so it's gonna be pretty difficult. 1169 01:04:18,230 --> 01:04:19,523 I was frustrated creatively, 1170 01:04:20,399 --> 01:04:22,943 feeling like I've got some music in my head 1171 01:04:23,110 --> 01:04:24,820 that I could make on my own or with a side project, 1172 01:04:24,987 --> 01:04:27,739 and instead of getting frustrated with the fact that 1173 01:04:27,906 --> 01:04:29,950 I can't do that with this creative outlet, 1174 01:04:30,117 --> 01:04:31,451 why don't I just do it somewhere else. 1175 01:04:35,831 --> 01:04:38,083 I saw the Administration as a great escape. 1176 01:04:38,792 --> 01:04:40,127 It felt great to be in an environment 1177 01:04:40,294 --> 01:04:42,129 where I knew if I, like, hear something, 1178 01:04:42,296 --> 01:04:44,923 tell them a reference, give them a feeling, 1179 01:04:45,090 --> 01:04:47,634 and everyone in the room could do it. 1180 01:04:54,933 --> 01:04:56,685 The initial idea with this... with this record 1181 01:04:56,852 --> 01:04:58,145 was that it was side project, 1182 01:04:58,312 --> 01:05:00,480 and... and that's still the... the whole concept. 1183 01:05:00,647 --> 01:05:01,940 Me and my brothers breaking up 1184 01:05:02,107 --> 01:05:03,317 is not something you need to be worried about. 1185 01:05:04,484 --> 01:05:06,028 And, Nick, this way. 1186 01:05:07,029 --> 01:05:08,655 After the Administration, 1187 01:05:08,822 --> 01:05:09,990 I moved to New York City. 1188 01:05:11,408 --> 01:05:12,951 And it was really sort of like a... 1189 01:05:13,118 --> 01:05:14,536 a college experience in a sense, 1190 01:05:14,703 --> 01:05:17,414 where, you know, I... 1191 01:05:17,581 --> 01:05:19,416 was on my own for the first time. Real independence. 1192 01:05:22,336 --> 01:05:25,297 When I first went in to do the rehearsals for 1193 01:05:25,464 --> 01:05:26,590 "How To Succeed," 1194 01:05:26,757 --> 01:05:28,216 I was a little nervous. 1195 01:05:28,383 --> 01:05:29,676 And it was... 1196 01:05:30,969 --> 01:05:31,845 exhilarating. 1197 01:05:34,765 --> 01:05:36,683 I really felt like the work on stage 1198 01:05:36,850 --> 01:05:38,268 was being recognized. 1199 01:05:38,435 --> 01:05:39,811 I was having so much fun. 1200 01:05:42,105 --> 01:05:43,315 I was so thrilled for him, 1201 01:05:43,482 --> 01:05:44,691 because I knew how happy he was, 1202 01:05:44,858 --> 01:05:46,360 but I was scared. 1203 01:05:46,526 --> 01:05:48,862 It was in, like, the peak of the Jonas Brothers. 1204 01:05:49,029 --> 01:05:52,032 The dude was getting a taste of what it's like on his own, and it was awesome. 1205 01:05:54,701 --> 01:05:56,662 At the time, I felt like I needed to go 1206 01:05:56,828 --> 01:05:58,288 and try to live a normal life 1207 01:05:58,455 --> 01:06:00,040 and do my own thing. 1208 01:06:00,207 --> 01:06:01,875 - Excuse me, guys. Thank you. - Have a good night, man. 1209 01:06:02,042 --> 01:06:04,670 Go travel, meet girls, date, 1210 01:06:04,836 --> 01:06:06,088 just have time off. 1211 01:06:06,797 --> 01:06:08,382 I was trying to find myself. 1212 01:06:09,758 --> 01:06:12,219 I was outside of the Brothers for the first time ever. 1213 01:06:13,804 --> 01:06:15,180 Finding independence, 1214 01:06:15,347 --> 01:06:17,641 and just seeing what was out there 1215 01:06:17,808 --> 01:06:19,726 besides the Jonas Brothers. 1216 01:06:22,896 --> 01:06:24,606 I felt inspired, 1217 01:06:24,773 --> 01:06:26,108 and I... I just couldn't wait to put my attention and focus 1218 01:06:26,274 --> 01:06:27,651 into music of my own. 1219 01:06:29,444 --> 01:06:31,780 And I made, like, an R&B pop record. 1220 01:06:32,656 --> 01:06:35,117 It was definitely, like, an exciting time. 1221 01:06:37,619 --> 01:06:38,995 I was really trying to prove myself 1222 01:06:39,162 --> 01:06:40,831 probably to my brothers, but to everyone out there 1223 01:06:40,997 --> 01:06:42,541 that I can do it without Kevin and Nick. 1224 01:06:43,542 --> 01:06:45,127 And I started dressing differently, 1225 01:06:45,293 --> 01:06:46,920 I started acting differently, 1226 01:06:47,087 --> 01:06:49,673 and the music didn't do as well as I anticipated. 1227 01:06:52,175 --> 01:06:54,386 I guess a little taste of reality. 1228 01:06:58,348 --> 01:06:59,599 My mind's, at the time, like... 1229 01:07:00,350 --> 01:07:01,893 here's my first failure. 1230 01:07:03,353 --> 01:07:05,647 I think it was really tough for me 1231 01:07:05,814 --> 01:07:07,315 because I felt like 1232 01:07:07,482 --> 01:07:09,568 I can't do anything without my brothers, 1233 01:07:09,735 --> 01:07:10,944 like, it was embarrassing. 1234 01:07:15,449 --> 01:07:17,534 So instead of staying with the band and the hype, 1235 01:07:17,701 --> 01:07:19,619 and, like, rolling in, like, another tour, 1236 01:07:19,786 --> 01:07:21,955 and more music and kind of, like, pushing that envelope, 1237 01:07:22,122 --> 01:07:23,999 we were, like, let's take a pause and take a break. 1238 01:07:24,166 --> 01:07:25,834 And at the time, for me, it was like... 1239 01:07:29,254 --> 01:07:31,882 Danielle was the normal girl from New Jersey who was a hairdresser. 1240 01:07:32,048 --> 01:07:33,633 We fall in love and we get engaged. 1241 01:07:35,469 --> 01:07:36,636 I feel like... 1242 01:07:37,471 --> 01:07:38,513 I'm my own man. 1243 01:07:39,181 --> 01:07:41,558 Kevin, you may kiss your bride. 1244 01:07:43,727 --> 01:07:45,395 After four years of, like, craziness, 1245 01:07:45,562 --> 01:07:47,689 I was living my best life. 1246 01:07:47,856 --> 01:07:50,025 It was nice to, like, just be together. 1247 01:07:50,192 --> 01:07:51,651 You know, like, we needed it. 1248 01:07:51,818 --> 01:07:52,986 Age wise, 1249 01:07:53,904 --> 01:07:55,280 I'm five years older than Nick. 1250 01:07:56,031 --> 01:07:58,116 You know, like I would have been out of college at this point, 1251 01:07:58,283 --> 01:07:59,826 I would have had all those experiences, 1252 01:07:59,993 --> 01:08:02,287 I would have been able to just go on a normal date. 1253 01:08:04,039 --> 01:08:06,708 After I got married, my priorities shifted a little bit. 1254 01:08:08,001 --> 01:08:09,669 And then we got offered a reality TV show. 1255 01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:13,256 I wanted to do it. 1256 01:08:14,049 --> 01:08:15,759 All of a sudden, they sent a crew of people 1257 01:08:15,926 --> 01:08:17,260 to our Denville house in New Jersey, 1258 01:08:17,427 --> 01:08:18,887 and we were shooting a pilot. 1259 01:08:19,721 --> 01:08:21,515 For the first time it was, like, this is my thing. 1260 01:08:22,224 --> 01:08:23,517 I felt like I could really do well 1261 01:08:23,683 --> 01:08:25,101 in this environment. 1262 01:08:25,268 --> 01:08:27,062 We filmed all of this stuff, 1263 01:08:27,938 --> 01:08:30,023 and then it all kind of changed when, like, 1264 01:08:30,690 --> 01:08:32,901 the Jonases show up and it's, like, 1265 01:08:33,735 --> 01:08:34,694 all weird. 1266 01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:36,696 Our whole life was a closed-door meeting, 1267 01:08:37,864 --> 01:08:40,742 and Kevin invited cameras into that meeting finally, 1268 01:08:40,909 --> 01:08:43,411 and we felt like he was going to air out a lot of our shit 1269 01:08:43,578 --> 01:08:45,580 that we didn't want people to know about. 1270 01:08:45,747 --> 01:08:48,166 Joe and Nick didn't want to have anything to do with it. 1271 01:08:48,333 --> 01:08:50,460 They were, like, kind of forced to do the show. 1272 01:08:52,629 --> 01:08:54,422 We didn't like the idea that 1273 01:08:54,589 --> 01:08:56,591 the reality show could dictate who we were. 1274 01:08:59,010 --> 01:09:01,054 And to watch it every Sunday was not fun for us. 1275 01:09:09,020 --> 01:09:10,689 We got the band back together, 1276 01:09:10,856 --> 01:09:12,566 I think, in a lot of ways 'cause we felt like we had to, 1277 01:09:12,732 --> 01:09:15,735 uh, but this time, everything was different. 1278 01:09:16,987 --> 01:09:19,781 We thought because of the success we'd had, 1279 01:09:19,948 --> 01:09:21,908 or because of the familiarity of the name, 1280 01:09:22,075 --> 01:09:23,410 the Jonas Brothers, that it would have success. 1281 01:09:23,577 --> 01:09:24,578 We were wrong. 1282 01:09:25,745 --> 01:09:28,748 We put out a couple songs that really didn't connect. 1283 01:09:28,915 --> 01:09:31,001 We played some shows 1284 01:09:31,167 --> 01:09:33,587 and fewer and fewer people were coming out, 1285 01:09:33,753 --> 01:09:36,381 and it just didn't feel like anything was... was working. 1286 01:09:37,424 --> 01:09:39,050 We were three people 1287 01:09:39,217 --> 01:09:42,429 all living different realities of what the Jonas Brothers were. 1288 01:09:44,139 --> 01:09:46,433 We lost sight of the fact that we were just a band 1289 01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:48,476 having a good time. 1290 01:09:49,436 --> 01:09:51,104 People liked seeing us happy, 1291 01:09:51,688 --> 01:09:53,106 and we were not happy. 1292 01:09:54,649 --> 01:09:58,778 We just decided that we could beat it or something, and... 1293 01:10:00,530 --> 01:10:01,781 that's not how it works. 1294 01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:09,122 We're about to go do this tour. 1295 01:10:10,415 --> 01:10:12,667 The reality of it all was starting to hit me. 1296 01:10:13,251 --> 01:10:15,128 We're all so frustrated. 1297 01:10:15,295 --> 01:10:17,130 And nothing is working. 1298 01:10:17,881 --> 01:10:19,799 We hate each other, basically. 1299 01:10:22,469 --> 01:10:24,346 And I called my dad, and he actually picked me up 1300 01:10:24,512 --> 01:10:27,515 and drove me around LA for two hours, 1301 01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:31,728 replaying the night before where I had a full-on panic attack. 1302 01:10:31,895 --> 01:10:33,229 And we sat and talked through it all. 1303 01:10:33,396 --> 01:10:35,899 And I was just full of anxiety. 1304 01:10:36,900 --> 01:10:40,320 He said, "I feel like I'm fighting against 1305 01:10:41,196 --> 01:10:43,531 "something that's not working. 1306 01:10:44,574 --> 01:10:46,660 "I've given everything I have to this music, 1307 01:10:48,119 --> 01:10:50,538 "but I'm going here, Joe's going here, 1308 01:10:51,289 --> 01:10:52,791 "Kevin's over there, 1309 01:10:53,875 --> 01:10:57,128 and I just can't do it anymore." 1310 01:10:57,796 --> 01:11:01,091 It was scary because 1311 01:11:01,257 --> 01:11:04,344 I'm not just the manager at that point. 1312 01:11:05,178 --> 01:11:06,346 I'm the dad. 1313 01:11:08,556 --> 01:11:10,642 In the car, I just decided the best way to handle this 1314 01:11:10,809 --> 01:11:14,896 was just going to... was to be as honest as possible. 1315 01:11:16,398 --> 01:11:17,857 So we go into that meeting 1316 01:11:18,358 --> 01:11:20,318 And Nick actually said to me, 1317 01:11:20,485 --> 01:11:23,029 "They probably are even anticipating this." 1318 01:11:24,489 --> 01:11:25,490 They were not. 1319 01:11:26,491 --> 01:11:27,826 So me and Joe sit down, 1320 01:11:28,368 --> 01:11:29,619 and Nick says, 1321 01:11:31,162 --> 01:11:34,708 "As you guys know, like, things haven't been the same, 1322 01:11:35,500 --> 01:11:37,961 and the Jonas Brothers should be no more." 1323 01:11:39,671 --> 01:11:42,632 It was not, "My heart's not in it, 1324 01:11:42,799 --> 01:11:44,801 "and I wanna be real with you as band members 1325 01:11:44,968 --> 01:11:46,261 and brothers, this is where I'm at." 1326 01:11:46,428 --> 01:11:48,263 It was, "The band is over. 1327 01:11:49,097 --> 01:11:50,390 "I wanna go do stuff without you guys, 1328 01:11:51,433 --> 01:11:52,892 and I've made up my mind." 1329 01:11:54,477 --> 01:11:56,271 And neither one of them were saying anything. 1330 01:11:58,106 --> 01:12:00,191 I just remember looking at Joe 1331 01:12:01,693 --> 01:12:04,070 and being like, "Wait... What do you... What?" 1332 01:12:04,988 --> 01:12:06,614 I felt betrayed. 1333 01:12:07,574 --> 01:12:09,075 I felt lied to, 1334 01:12:09,242 --> 01:12:11,077 I felt angry. 1335 01:12:13,163 --> 01:12:14,247 Numb. 1336 01:12:15,373 --> 01:12:16,916 And Joe said, "I have nothing to say to you." 1337 01:12:18,918 --> 01:12:21,588 Joe has shut down. 1338 01:12:22,881 --> 01:12:25,759 I'm looking at my brother just being destroyed inside. 1339 01:12:27,093 --> 01:12:31,973 I was 25-26. This was all I've known. 1340 01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:34,976 This is what I loved more than anything. 1341 01:12:35,143 --> 01:12:36,102 I loved doing this. 1342 01:12:36,936 --> 01:12:38,772 And somebody that you loved and cared about so much 1343 01:12:38,938 --> 01:12:40,315 could take it away from you so quickly, 1344 01:12:40,482 --> 01:12:42,150 that was, um... 1345 01:12:45,278 --> 01:12:46,571 That was heartbreaking. 1346 01:12:48,281 --> 01:12:53,620 It's like you get one taste of solo success... 1347 01:12:53,787 --> 01:12:56,247 and you forget all the work we put in together. 1348 01:12:57,624 --> 01:13:00,001 What hurt the most is that it came from Nick, 1349 01:13:01,336 --> 01:13:06,716 because he is my best friend, 1350 01:13:08,551 --> 01:13:12,180 and I thought that me, Kevin and Nick were gonna do this forever, 1351 01:13:14,015 --> 01:13:17,477 and it was us against the world, you know? 1352 01:13:18,353 --> 01:13:19,979 Then Joe finally broke down. It was like, 1353 01:13:20,146 --> 01:13:21,523 "You want to be done? 1354 01:13:22,440 --> 01:13:24,275 Fine. We're done." 1355 01:13:26,611 --> 01:13:28,154 Folks, please step out of the road. 1356 01:13:28,947 --> 01:13:31,991 That's when I knew the band was over, 1357 01:13:32,992 --> 01:13:36,913 because Joe and Nick were thick as thieves. 1358 01:13:39,916 --> 01:13:41,876 What's up, Nick? 1359 01:13:42,043 --> 01:13:43,503 The fans were just stunned at the bombshell news 1360 01:13:43,670 --> 01:13:45,171 that the band of brothers were calling it quits. 1361 01:13:45,338 --> 01:13:46,923 They are going to set the record straight. 1362 01:13:47,090 --> 01:13:50,176 The burning question, Kev... Why now? Why? 1363 01:13:50,343 --> 01:13:51,845 Are you guys gonna break up for sure? 1364 01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:53,763 You're not gonna say? 1365 01:13:54,806 --> 01:13:56,266 What's the deal, man? 1366 01:13:56,432 --> 01:13:57,851 They wanna know, man. everyone wants to know. 1367 01:13:58,017 --> 01:14:00,019 You're not gonna say? 1368 01:14:00,186 --> 01:14:01,729 For a while, it was dark. 1369 01:14:01,896 --> 01:14:03,356 All right, man. Well, have a good one. 1370 01:14:07,735 --> 01:14:08,820 I got an eight on Nick. 1371 01:14:08,987 --> 01:14:10,697 A 10, oh, it's to me. 1372 01:14:15,535 --> 01:14:17,203 "Why did you play 1373 01:14:17,370 --> 01:14:19,372 a Jonas Brothers radio show after we broke up?" 1374 01:14:21,624 --> 01:14:22,542 Oof. 1375 01:14:24,586 --> 01:14:27,130 What I was told was, the radio station said, 1376 01:14:27,297 --> 01:14:28,590 "If you don't play these shows, 1377 01:14:28,756 --> 01:14:31,009 "we will never play the Jonas Brothers 1378 01:14:31,176 --> 01:14:36,055 or any Jonas individually on the radio again." 1379 01:14:36,222 --> 01:14:38,433 It'll just be like, "Joe's gonna play his music, 1380 01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:40,685 "then Nick's gonna come out, and Nick's gonna do his music. 1381 01:14:40,852 --> 01:14:42,395 "No Jonas Brothers music. 1382 01:14:42,562 --> 01:14:44,355 So, Kevin, it's okay, you don't have to be there." 1383 01:14:45,565 --> 01:14:48,234 Okay. Fine. Whatever. 1384 01:14:48,401 --> 01:14:49,903 We're not playing together anyway. 1385 01:15:02,332 --> 01:15:05,293 The entire set was them singing all the Jonas Brothers songs together. 1386 01:15:10,173 --> 01:15:12,592 All the big hits, all the big moments, 1387 01:15:13,593 --> 01:15:14,636 and I'm just not there. 1388 01:15:20,808 --> 01:15:23,311 I think that might have been the hardest moment of my entire life. 1389 01:15:30,151 --> 01:15:31,277 Um... 1390 01:15:33,488 --> 01:15:35,448 I think it's because we felt you were holding us back. 1391 01:15:36,241 --> 01:15:37,116 That's the truth. 1392 01:15:38,910 --> 01:15:40,954 I think there was, um... 1393 01:15:42,872 --> 01:15:44,415 moments that... 1394 01:15:44,582 --> 01:15:46,000 Nick and I wanted to... 1395 01:15:48,086 --> 01:15:49,003 do our own thing, 1396 01:15:50,088 --> 01:15:55,176 and we felt like your focus was not in it anymore, 1397 01:15:55,843 --> 01:15:58,972 and it wasn't a priority for you, 1398 01:15:59,847 --> 01:16:01,307 and starting a family was, 1399 01:16:04,644 --> 01:16:07,772 and your guitar playing, kind of, like, fell in the back seat. 1400 01:16:10,984 --> 01:16:13,319 And I think we wanted to both continue doing music. 1401 01:16:15,905 --> 01:16:17,824 And I think we had these gigs in front of us. 1402 01:16:18,950 --> 01:16:21,577 Now, as I think back on it, I realize how fucked up it is, 1403 01:16:22,203 --> 01:16:26,165 going to take a Jonas Brothers gig and you weren't on stage, 1404 01:16:28,042 --> 01:16:29,836 but it took me time to understand, 1405 01:16:30,003 --> 01:16:33,881 having someone in my life that... 1406 01:16:35,133 --> 01:16:37,343 I'll do fucking anything to see Sophie for an hour. 1407 01:16:39,971 --> 01:16:41,931 All of those years, our first love was music, 1408 01:16:42,473 --> 01:16:43,766 first love was the band. 1409 01:16:44,684 --> 01:16:47,645 And so for me as a teenager 1410 01:16:47,812 --> 01:16:48,855 and a young adult, 1411 01:16:49,480 --> 01:16:54,152 to see you prioritize anything but was bad. 1412 01:16:56,279 --> 01:16:57,697 But it took me a long time to understand that. 1413 01:16:57,864 --> 01:16:59,407 Like, you found love very young. 1414 01:17:00,575 --> 01:17:01,576 Um... 1415 01:17:03,161 --> 01:17:04,620 and I do think you know now, too, 1416 01:17:05,371 --> 01:17:06,581 it's a balance. 1417 01:17:07,290 --> 01:17:09,417 Back then, we didn't feel like you even tried that. 1418 01:17:10,668 --> 01:17:13,588 It felt like, it was just like, "The show's done. I'm out." 1419 01:17:13,755 --> 01:17:17,175 And it was like, "Well, fuck, like, sometimes that hang with brothers is so important." 1420 01:17:18,217 --> 01:17:19,052 And I get that. 1421 01:17:19,886 --> 01:17:23,514 I love you. I'm sorry that you had to go through that. 1422 01:17:29,062 --> 01:17:29,979 Yeah. 1423 01:17:31,272 --> 01:17:33,316 Let's carry on. Let's leave it there. 1424 01:17:35,485 --> 01:17:36,527 I got my card. 1425 01:17:38,154 --> 01:17:39,655 Didn't really see him for Christmas that year. 1426 01:17:39,822 --> 01:17:41,074 Didn't see him the holidays. 1427 01:17:48,873 --> 01:17:51,250 But I think what was really hard for me was... 1428 01:17:52,668 --> 01:17:53,920 when Alena came... 1429 01:17:56,130 --> 01:17:57,215 we weren't really talking. 1430 01:18:00,968 --> 01:18:04,764 It was the first time I saw my brothers since the breakup. 1431 01:18:16,067 --> 01:18:19,153 Nick came to me at 21 years old and said, 1432 01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:20,863 "I feel like I'm a has-been." 1433 01:18:21,030 --> 01:18:22,782 And it was really tough. 1434 01:18:24,492 --> 01:18:26,786 I think a lot of people in my life 1435 01:18:27,870 --> 01:18:30,248 gave my ability to be okay a little too much credit 1436 01:18:30,415 --> 01:18:31,541 during that time. 1437 01:18:34,335 --> 01:18:36,045 I just didn't feel like I deserved to... 1438 01:18:37,255 --> 01:18:39,590 to unravel because I had initiated this... 1439 01:18:40,508 --> 01:18:42,593 very tough conversation. 1440 01:18:44,554 --> 01:18:47,056 When Nick split up from the band, 1441 01:18:47,223 --> 01:18:49,058 it was a very difficult time for him, 1442 01:18:49,225 --> 01:18:51,060 but because our history was so long, 1443 01:18:51,227 --> 01:18:53,020 I was aware of what he was capable of 1444 01:18:53,187 --> 01:18:54,814 as a singer and as a writer, 1445 01:18:54,981 --> 01:18:56,149 and he knew it, too. 1446 01:18:57,567 --> 01:19:00,194 His ambition was wholly intact. 1447 01:19:01,696 --> 01:19:04,574 For a while, this "you need to be great at something," 1448 01:19:04,740 --> 01:19:07,618 or being the best, would drive me crazy. 1449 01:19:08,578 --> 01:19:10,288 There wasn't a defining moment that I can look at 1450 01:19:10,455 --> 01:19:11,956 and say, "Oh, that was the moment everything changed." 1451 01:19:12,123 --> 01:19:13,916 But when "Jealous" came out, 1452 01:19:14,083 --> 01:19:16,335 it was like I was ready to evolve. 1453 01:19:18,004 --> 01:19:19,839 I'm a big fan of this new song. 1454 01:19:20,006 --> 01:19:22,925 He'd become more and more charismatic as a young man. 1455 01:19:23,092 --> 01:19:24,927 Congratulations on all your success. 1456 01:19:25,094 --> 01:19:26,721 You could tell he was ready to be a global superstar. 1457 01:19:39,442 --> 01:19:41,569 I was operating with more freedom, 1458 01:19:41,736 --> 01:19:43,196 and I was really enjoying it. 1459 01:19:43,863 --> 01:19:45,907 I began to recognize that, 1460 01:19:47,116 --> 01:19:49,368 when you're enjoying yourself and having fun, it resonates. 1461 01:19:50,828 --> 01:19:52,205 All the stars were aligning and... 1462 01:19:52,997 --> 01:19:55,041 it was like, "Next chapter. Here we go." 1463 01:19:59,629 --> 01:20:01,088 Thank you! 1464 01:20:01,255 --> 01:20:03,716 Joe came to me and said, "Hey, I see what Nick's doing, 1465 01:20:03,883 --> 01:20:07,303 and there's more in me as well." 1466 01:20:07,470 --> 01:20:10,640 The first batch of songs I wrote was just like... 1467 01:20:10,806 --> 01:20:14,352 I can't explain the style 'cause it's not out there. 1468 01:20:14,519 --> 01:20:16,604 And I was like, "I don't know. I don't think anyone's gonna get it." 1469 01:20:20,066 --> 01:20:23,778 "Cake By The Ocean"... It's on every single day of my life. 1470 01:20:25,863 --> 01:20:27,031 And I love that it is. 1471 01:20:31,619 --> 01:20:33,788 It's funny that you were nominated for Best New Artist. 1472 01:20:33,955 --> 01:20:35,998 I was like, "Wait a minute. I think he's been around for a couple years." 1473 01:20:36,165 --> 01:20:37,959 DNCE! 1474 01:20:38,125 --> 01:20:40,002 DNCE allowed me to be 1475 01:20:40,169 --> 01:20:42,922 as wild and as free as I can possibly be. 1476 01:20:43,089 --> 01:20:45,758 I was able to dress whatever crazy outfits 1477 01:20:45,925 --> 01:20:47,426 and change my hair color every week 1478 01:20:47,593 --> 01:20:49,512 and just really, like, live it. 1479 01:20:49,679 --> 01:20:51,055 I became more confident. 1480 01:20:51,222 --> 01:20:53,099 I was reverting back to that young me. 1481 01:20:53,933 --> 01:20:56,852 Really finding that space where I could evolve as an artist, 1482 01:20:58,312 --> 01:20:59,564 and people accepted it. 1483 01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:04,527 It was my own little paradise. 1484 01:21:05,903 --> 01:21:08,364 Your brother's having great success as a solo artist. 1485 01:21:08,531 --> 01:21:11,367 You've got DNCE. Kev, is he just in... 1486 01:21:11,534 --> 01:21:12,535 Where's Kevin? 1487 01:21:26,424 --> 01:21:28,634 I don't think I fully comprehended 1488 01:21:30,136 --> 01:21:33,139 what it would do to me after the fact. 1489 01:21:35,141 --> 01:21:36,309 Even to this day... 1490 01:21:37,727 --> 01:21:39,812 I get asked if I'm Joe or Nick every day. 1491 01:21:44,650 --> 01:21:47,486 "Are you Joe Jonas? Are you Nick Jonas?" 1492 01:21:48,195 --> 01:21:49,488 And it's like, "No, I'm Kevin." 1493 01:21:54,327 --> 01:21:55,328 My whole life, 1494 01:21:56,287 --> 01:22:00,458 I've been so concerned with success. 1495 01:22:02,710 --> 01:22:06,130 I felt like there was a screwdriver in my head all the time saying 1496 01:22:06,297 --> 01:22:08,883 you have to be successful, you have chase the dream, 1497 01:22:09,050 --> 01:22:10,509 you have to get the number-ones, all that. 1498 01:22:12,928 --> 01:22:15,890 But I found that success 1499 01:22:16,057 --> 01:22:20,102 isn't always tied to fame and fortune 1500 01:22:20,269 --> 01:22:22,188 and awards and those kinds of things. 1501 01:22:22,980 --> 01:22:24,190 - Hello? - Hey, babe. 1502 01:22:24,940 --> 01:22:27,735 - Hey. - Hey. What size is Valentina? 1503 01:22:27,902 --> 01:22:30,529 What size diapers? Is she a three, four, or five? I can't remember. 1504 01:22:31,280 --> 01:22:32,865 - She's a four. - She's a four? 1505 01:22:33,574 --> 01:22:35,076 Not the purple, so then this guy. 1506 01:22:35,242 --> 01:22:36,410 All right, cool. I got it. 1507 01:22:36,577 --> 01:22:37,995 All right, cool. Love you. 1508 01:22:38,162 --> 01:22:39,705 All right. Love you. Bye. 1509 01:22:40,831 --> 01:22:45,002 My identity now is just, like, I'm a father. 1510 01:22:45,169 --> 01:22:49,965 I'm a husband. I'm passionate about the things that I like. 1511 01:22:53,636 --> 01:22:55,554 I think it was amazing when Kevin had children. 1512 01:22:55,721 --> 01:22:59,558 He... He became a leader. 1513 01:23:04,522 --> 01:23:06,816 And I've never seen Kevin like that before. 1514 01:23:06,982 --> 01:23:08,651 Wanna go see Alena? 1515 01:23:08,818 --> 01:23:11,529 I got asked by someone, "You look really familiar." 1516 01:23:11,696 --> 01:23:14,448 My daughter said, "Well, that's because he's a Jonas Brother." 1517 01:23:15,449 --> 01:23:17,827 You guys all right? Did you sleep good? 1518 01:23:17,993 --> 01:23:19,120 Four-year-old said to this girl. 1519 01:23:19,829 --> 01:23:22,415 But it's starting to become weird, 1520 01:23:22,581 --> 01:23:24,458 because that part of my life is dead now. 1521 01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:26,836 Here. 1522 01:23:29,130 --> 01:23:32,258 That's no longer my identity, and I had to get to a place where I could say, like, 1523 01:23:32,425 --> 01:23:33,968 "Formerly of the Jonas Brothers." 1524 01:23:34,135 --> 01:23:35,761 You wanna play? 1525 01:23:36,554 --> 01:23:38,848 Oh, don't do that. 1526 01:23:39,014 --> 01:23:40,224 You wanna be a real rock and roller, 1527 01:23:40,391 --> 01:23:41,976 you gotta do this, though. Okay? 1528 01:23:42,143 --> 01:23:43,936 You gotta put all your hair in front of your face like that. 1529 01:23:45,062 --> 01:23:47,606 Alena, she's only heard music. 1530 01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:51,318 She's never seen Daddy on stage. 1531 01:23:53,612 --> 01:23:55,698 Being able to see her in that audience 1532 01:23:57,533 --> 01:23:59,326 see me do what I do did best for so long... 1533 01:24:02,788 --> 01:24:04,206 And she knows me as her dad... 1534 01:24:07,084 --> 01:24:08,711 She doesn't know the person that was great. 1535 01:24:14,300 --> 01:24:16,510 You know, it's funny how you spend so much time 1536 01:24:16,677 --> 01:24:19,764 chasing happiness and the things 1537 01:24:19,930 --> 01:24:21,974 you think will bring you that joy in life 1538 01:24:23,726 --> 01:24:27,021 and not realizing it's been there all along. 1539 01:24:29,315 --> 01:24:32,318 Letting go of my anger and my sadness... 1540 01:24:34,403 --> 01:24:35,654 It took time. 1541 01:24:36,238 --> 01:24:40,493 I'd rather we be brothers 1542 01:24:40,659 --> 01:24:45,164 and not have our band dictate our relationship. 1543 01:24:56,300 --> 01:24:57,885 I think Nick said it casually, like, 1544 01:24:58,052 --> 01:24:59,637 "I really miss performing with you guys." 1545 01:25:00,387 --> 01:25:02,014 And I don't even think I really heard him. 1546 01:25:02,181 --> 01:25:03,390 I just was like, "Yeah, cool," 1547 01:25:03,557 --> 01:25:05,768 and then kept on moving. 1548 01:25:12,983 --> 01:25:15,069 No way in hell I would do it again. 1549 01:25:15,236 --> 01:25:16,529 That was where I was at, 1550 01:25:17,238 --> 01:25:19,406 until I was, like, "No, like, I actually... I miss it." 1551 01:26:01,407 --> 01:26:04,618 Even after I found solo success, 1552 01:26:05,286 --> 01:26:07,246 I would miss looking over... 1553 01:26:08,831 --> 01:26:11,792 and seeing them. 1554 01:26:22,887 --> 01:26:24,680 A little rusty. 1555 01:26:24,847 --> 01:26:26,098 But currently we don't have a label, so... 1556 01:26:26,265 --> 01:26:28,100 - Eight years. - Still a jam. 1557 01:26:32,187 --> 01:26:34,607 We started the conversation with, 1558 01:26:35,482 --> 01:26:39,069 "I'll do this if we can have fun together." 1559 01:26:44,658 --> 01:26:47,119 It's been probably six, seven years 1560 01:26:47,286 --> 01:26:49,288 since just the three of us just got to hang out. 1561 01:26:51,624 --> 01:26:53,584 We spent the last year traveling the world together 1562 01:26:53,751 --> 01:26:55,336 and really just reconnecting. 1563 01:26:56,003 --> 01:26:58,797 Laughing and talking, reminiscing. 1564 01:26:59,798 --> 01:27:01,383 These old things that we used to do together. 1565 01:27:02,134 --> 01:27:03,844 And I really missed it. 1566 01:27:04,011 --> 01:27:06,972 We laid it all out there. We really held nothing back. 1567 01:27:08,682 --> 01:27:10,309 This is an adjustment. 1568 01:27:10,476 --> 01:27:13,771 I mean, it's not all, like, rainbows and butterflies. 1569 01:27:13,938 --> 01:27:15,564 - Don't touch it! - Yeah, don't touch it. 1570 01:27:15,731 --> 01:27:17,191 - What are you doing? - Just rolling back... 1571 01:27:17,358 --> 01:27:18,943 - Don't touch it. - Look how you mapped it. 1572 01:27:19,109 --> 01:27:20,694 That's bullshit. 1573 01:27:20,861 --> 01:27:23,405 That's part of the re-establishing of chemistry 1574 01:27:23,572 --> 01:27:25,658 and camaraderie and the brotherhood aspect. 1575 01:27:25,824 --> 01:27:27,076 And that will be a process in this. 1576 01:27:27,242 --> 01:27:28,953 - Go back to it. - Did it go away? 1577 01:27:29,119 --> 01:27:31,246 Yeah, 'cause you were, like, jacking the phone. Hold on. 1578 01:27:31,413 --> 01:27:33,123 There's already little things each of us do 1579 01:27:33,290 --> 01:27:35,793 that probably annoy the fuck out of each other. 1580 01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:37,586 - Give me my phone. - Yeah, but we're getting a tape measure. 1581 01:27:37,753 --> 01:27:38,879 I don't give a shit about your... 1582 01:27:39,046 --> 01:27:40,881 I wanna show you how exact this is. 1583 01:27:41,882 --> 01:27:44,385 - Give me this phone! - Bring in the tape measure! 1584 01:27:46,428 --> 01:27:48,097 - First time in Australia. - You brought the rain with you. 1585 01:27:51,016 --> 01:27:52,476 - Cheers. -Salud. 1586 01:27:52,643 --> 01:27:53,769 Salud. Yeah. Nice to meet you. 1587 01:28:16,875 --> 01:28:20,504 I really want to have a second chance 1588 01:28:20,671 --> 01:28:24,383 with them so I can enjoy 1589 01:28:24,550 --> 01:28:26,885 every moment with my brothers... 1590 01:28:28,220 --> 01:28:29,096 and I can... 1591 01:28:31,724 --> 01:28:33,767 smile more. 1592 01:28:37,980 --> 01:28:41,275 It's hard to pick one, but I think my proudest memory would be 1593 01:28:41,442 --> 01:28:42,860 this past year, 1594 01:28:43,027 --> 01:28:45,571 because this is the year that 1595 01:28:45,738 --> 01:28:49,742 I have grown as a person, and I've grown with my brothers. 1596 01:29:00,085 --> 01:29:01,086 It's been a long road. 1597 01:29:02,588 --> 01:29:03,756 We've been through so much. 1598 01:29:05,758 --> 01:29:08,093 In finding myself, I was also able to find a partner. 1599 01:29:14,391 --> 01:29:15,851 The impact of falling in love 1600 01:29:16,018 --> 01:29:17,603 has made me want to be a better man... 1601 01:29:20,689 --> 01:29:22,274 a better person... 1602 01:29:22,441 --> 01:29:24,610 and ultimately made me a better brother. 1603 01:29:28,822 --> 01:29:30,115 We all spent the time apart 1604 01:29:30,741 --> 01:29:32,284 truly coming into our own. 1605 01:29:34,661 --> 01:29:36,246 I focused on my family, 1606 01:29:38,749 --> 01:29:43,504 on being the best husband and father that I could be. 1607 01:29:49,927 --> 01:29:51,386 The time apart was necessary. 1608 01:29:53,972 --> 01:29:56,517 I was able to pursue different creative avenues 1609 01:29:56,683 --> 01:29:59,144 and experiment with life in a way I never could before. 1610 01:30:01,230 --> 01:30:02,731 I was feeling inspired... 1611 01:30:06,068 --> 01:30:08,487 and it led me to find something even greater 1612 01:30:08,654 --> 01:30:09,696 than I could ever imagine. 1613 01:30:11,615 --> 01:30:12,533 Love. 1614 01:30:14,993 --> 01:30:17,996 And this love has changed my life... 1615 01:30:19,081 --> 01:30:19,998 forever. 1616 01:30:24,336 --> 01:30:25,712 Everything's amazing. 1617 01:30:27,756 --> 01:30:28,674 My husband. 1618 01:30:33,095 --> 01:30:34,805 I think that the brothers 1619 01:30:34,972 --> 01:30:36,682 had to grow apart 1620 01:30:37,891 --> 01:30:39,351 to be able to get perspective. 1621 01:30:40,978 --> 01:30:44,356 They've realized if you can get through life 1622 01:30:44,523 --> 01:30:48,443 with a couple key relationships intact, 1623 01:30:50,112 --> 01:30:53,115 they now have the perspective just how special that is. 1624 01:30:56,910 --> 01:30:59,204 All I cared about was that they would be okay as brothers. 1625 01:31:05,294 --> 01:31:06,211 They made it through. 1626 01:31:11,049 --> 01:31:13,051 There are brother bands that don't speak... 1627 01:31:14,678 --> 01:31:15,762 that hate each other. 1628 01:31:16,513 --> 01:31:17,598 Not my sons. 1629 01:31:18,724 --> 01:31:20,767 And it wasn't about the money, 1630 01:31:21,602 --> 01:31:22,895 wasn't about the music, 1631 01:31:23,437 --> 01:31:24,980 wasn't about the fame. 1632 01:31:25,606 --> 01:31:27,900 It was, "Hey, brothers... 1633 01:31:30,194 --> 01:31:31,695 you wanna do something awesome again together?" 1634 01:32:09,983 --> 01:32:11,235 Can you believe this? 1635 01:32:11,401 --> 01:32:13,320 Jonas Brothers back together out of nowhere, 1636 01:32:13,487 --> 01:32:15,280 releasing "Sucker," which I love. 1637 01:32:15,447 --> 01:32:17,908 But they're actually the first family band 1638 01:32:18,075 --> 01:32:21,203 to ever have a debut number one song on the Hot 100. 1639 01:32:21,370 --> 01:32:22,913 - They're all grown up now. - I know. 1640 01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:24,581 I put my head on the pillow at night 1641 01:32:24,748 --> 01:32:25,832 happy that the Jonas Brothers are back together. 1642 01:32:28,919 --> 01:32:31,004 I am their number one fan. 1643 01:32:31,171 --> 01:32:33,757 I know every lyric of every song. 1644 01:32:33,924 --> 01:32:37,511 I can recite every story of how they were made. 1645 01:32:38,053 --> 01:32:39,638 I love their music so much. 1646 01:33:02,744 --> 01:33:03,829 Thank you. 1647 01:33:26,435 --> 01:33:28,437 I chipped my tooth during a show. 1648 01:33:28,603 --> 01:33:29,688 I had the mic, and I was, like... 1649 01:33:31,732 --> 01:33:33,692 Right here. I chipped my tooth. 1650 01:33:34,318 --> 01:33:35,277 Can you see it? Yeah.