“A lot of people think the path to success is a straight line, but it’s not. It has got many turns and curves, and you just got to go with the ebbs and flows of it all.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Surround yourself with people who will make you better, and learn to listen.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I think traveling as much as we do and being on the road, the craziest thing is probably having our own little tour bus.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I am blessed that I get to do this thing I love to do, and if I wasn’t doing this, I’d probably be working as Starbucks. So the fact that I get to travel around on a tour bus all around the country is pretty awesome.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Rumors are always out there.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We’re growing and learning together, and it is important for us to stay true to the family that we are.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I was on the road with my brothers, traveling around the world, and things would be going well, and what would happen was that I’d be in a city, and there would be no way I’d know where to eat because I would only be there for 12 hours, and we wouldn’t know where to go.”
― Kevin Jonas
“My bag explodes with clothes all over my hotel room floor every day.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don’t dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.”
― Kevin Jonas
“There was one incident where we couldn’t hear ourselves, so we were singing in an entirely different key than the instruments. It gets so loud at a Jonas Brothers concert!”
― Kevin Jonas
“I’ve always had a passion for the tech industry, and I like to help build interesting products.”
― Kevin Jonas
“No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors, like a major record label.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Being discovered by an audience is an incredibly difficult thing.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Thanksgiving is a big one for our family.”
― Kevin Jonas
“As every parent knows, not every moment is going to be super exciting.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I decided that it’s going to be both Joe and Nick. Dani has an older and a younger sister, so it works out really well. I can have two best men, and she can have two maids of honor.”
― Kevin Jonas
“It would be incredible to be a dad and raise a family.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Any time you get to see Paul McCartney, it is pretty special.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We chose to be a family, not a band.”
― Kevin Jonas
“After the Jonas Brothers, I was like, ‘What is next?’”
― Kevin Jonas
“It was humbling to see my brothers blowing up in music while I wasn’t in the public eye, but it was also gratifying, because I’m doing what I love, and the self-esteem you get from that is so much better.”
― Kevin Jonas
“When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.”
― Kevin Jonas
“There are guitars everywhere around all of our houses. Pianos. Guitars. It’s kind of just in our blood. It’s in our nature.”
― Kevin Jonas
“You want your kids to be developing at the right level, and everyone says, ‘They’ll be fine, they’ll get there.’ But you get concerned. You just want to make sure there’s nothing else.”
― Kevin Jonas
“A lot of people don’t post about their kids or do anything. With us, we are so proud and so blessed to have our children, and we also know how happy we are, that I feel like we would love to share it. We are not trying to exploit anything in any way; honestly, I am just proud of my kids and just happy to have them.”
― Kevin Jonas
“You forget everything that happened with the first one. Like, at first, I was like, ‘How do I swaddle a baby again? Can I hold her like this?’ It’s like your brain is kind of melting. When you’re in the hospital, you’re like, ‘They really shouldn’t let us go home yet.’”
― Kevin Jonas
“It was funny because right before the whole band broke up, like, we were seven months’ pregnant, so my life was going to transition anyway, whether the band was continuing or not.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I’m a huge coffee drinker.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Don’t be surprised if you don’t connect as a father right away. That’s the one thing… No one ever talked to me about it.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Maybe you’re a little selfish that day; maybe you want something, and it can’t happen, but you don’t want to take no for an answer. Everybody has those moments, and you just have to be okay with being open and showing it.”
― Kevin Jonas
“At the end of the day, sometimes we don’t always get along, because when do friends always get along? But we are a family first and even more than just being brothers in a band.”
― Kevin Jonas
“In my line of work, you never know how the female fans are going to respond to another girl, but they’ve always been so kind and so sweet to Danielle, which has been really great.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We Skype all the time – me and my brothers, and especially me and Dani. Anytime we’re apart from the person we’re with, we’re always trying to be in touch and call.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I’m actually a big ‘Duck Dynasty’ fan.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I think my craziest Hollywood moment was performing at the Grammys with Stevie Wonder.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I haven’t seen ‘Magic Mike’ yet, and neither has Dani. Or maybe she has seen it, and I just don’t know!”
― Kevin Jonas
“I miss touring. I miss seeing people on the road. I miss that adrenaline rush; there’s nothing like it.”
― Kevin Jonas
“When you go out on stage and you greet the crowd, there’s nothing like it.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I don’t know how many times I literally hear this. It’s the worst pun in the world from some idiotic frat guy. It’s like, ‘You must be ‘Jealous’ of Nick!’ Constantly! It’s like, why? He’s doing his thing. I’m doing mine! He’s happy. I’m happy.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We’re a young, married couple, and we go through all the ups and downs that every couple goes through; we’re no different.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I think our music reflects us and has grown with us, and as our fans have grown, too.”
― Kevin Jonas
“My brothers and I have basically grown up on screen, and we feel so blessed and lucky because it’s been amazing.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Dani’s family are great, and I’m really lucky to have them as in-laws. But it’s definitely not all plain sailing. They are such big characters who aren’t scared to speak their mind, and we have different points of view at times, so we have to work through that.”
― Kevin Jonas
“You learn very quickly where you feel fulfilled and where you don’t.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We all had our strengths. I focused on mine, which was kind of the business side of things and more about the touring and the creative… Nick was all about the music, and Joe was about the entertainment aspect and the music.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I carry cards because I don’t like cash.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I was a total nerd and had, like, two friends, and then I left my school and got signed to a record deal.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I’ve always, like, wanted two kids that were both girls, and my wife was like, ‘Why?’ I’m like, ‘Because I’ve been around boy so much my entire life that I want to be surrounded by, you know, girls.’”
― Kevin Jonas
“It’s not your responsibility to comment on parenting for others. I would hate if someone did that to me.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I want healthy children.”
― Kevin Jonas
“My ring represents a promise to myself and to God that I’ll stay pure until marriage.”
― Kevin Jonas
“There was something in Nick, becoming the Broadway star that he was and working from the age of 7, being on Broadway for four years, and then doing the music.”
― Kevin Jonas
“My parents have sacrificed so much, more than any parents really should.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We’re not one of those groups who have one song on the radio and, boom, they’re an instant success. We worked hard from day one and didn’t get a lot of respect, possibly because of the way we were marketed.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Ever since me and the brothers no longer make music together, I stepped aside, and I’ve been doubling down here in the tech world.”
― Kevin Jonas
“The model of Yood is ‘taking search out of search.’”
― Kevin Jonas
“For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house.”
― Kevin Jonas
“The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We didn’t tell anyone we had gotten signed, because people can freak out a little. But we started working with writers. I remember that I missed three to four days of school every single week, and people were, like, ‘Where are you?’, but I couldn’t say anything, because we’d talked about keeping it to ourselves.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.”
― Kevin Jonas
“You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It’s your baby; your passion is in that song.”
― Kevin Jonas
“The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Really, each part, each one of us, I think, has our role, but I think for Joe, he really stands out and has that Mick Jagger-esque feel to him.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Moms are sometimes the craziest because they know they want to get their daughters to be seen by us or get an autograph.”
― Kevin Jonas
“The online thing has been really big for us: the YouTube videos, the MySpace.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We wake up and pinch ourselves most days.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We’ve grown up with the idea that even when you’re at the top, act like you’re at the bottom.”
― Kevin Jonas
“This crazy world that looks like a lot of fun is also really stressful and crazy at times.”
― Kevin Jonas
“People seriously ask us all the time, ‘Are you guys really brothers?’”
― Kevin Jonas
“Each year when we set up a new tour, we kind of push ourselves to come up with new ideas and new exciting things.”
― Kevin Jonas
“For us, our musical journey has just been a progression. We’re not trying to grow up too fast or anything, and I’m saying that even coming from being married. For us, we’re growing up with our audience.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We got very lucky, and we were really honored with how amazing our family is now at Hollywood Records… They believed in us, and they let us make the record we definitely wanted to make. And they let us be the Jonas Brothers.”
― Kevin Jonas
“This music really is us. We’re not, like, a manufactured version.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Yes, there is another brother. His name is Frankie.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We really do get along, I think because we have a bit of respect for each other being in a band. But, of course, we’re brothers.”
― Kevin Jonas
“I think there’s, you know, somewhere inside of us there’s that – that fear of one day waking up and, you know, the fans – the fans move on to the next band or something.”
― Kevin Jonas
“No one is above temptation. No one is above life in general.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We try to live as normal a life as we can, but it can be overwhelming at times.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We have the most amazing security team around us, and beyond that, our fans are just very enthusiastic, and they have a great way of showing their enthusiasm.”
― Kevin Jonas
“When we first started in ’04 or ’05, that’s when social media started to become a way to release music and connect with fans – and our fans were kind of at the forefront of that.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Travis Barker is one of the greatest drummers ever, and all the guys in blink are really good songwriters.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We honestly cannot hear sometimes because the audiences are so loud.”
― Kevin Jonas
“You can feel how the audiences react. For us, it’s about the performance and the reaction. We feed off the energy. And no matter how enthusiastic they are, we can tell if we’re playing well or not.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We have Common on one song called ‘Don’t Charge Me With the Crime,’ which is one of my favorite songs. It’s a story song. It didn’t really happen to us. But it’s definitely fun to have him on the track.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We are, you know, not perfect. We live every day day-by-day, and we do the best to make our mom proud.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Camp is so universal. It buys that sense of togetherness. You have camp friends that you only see at camp and couldn’t see an entire year.”
― Kevin Jonas
“It’s awesome to play 1 1/2 -hour shows because it’s so much fun, and we enjoy every single minute of it.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We’ve played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we’ve been opening acts for everyone.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Our shows are just like that. The screaming is constant, nonstop, and there’s not one minute of silence during the show. It’s pretty intense.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We write our own songs, play our own instruments.”
― Kevin Jonas
“It’s neat to hear a new generation of musicians come up.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We run around onstage constantly for about an hour and 45 minutes, and we know what that can do. You just feel great at the end of the night and when you wake up in the morning.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Anyone with a cellphone essentially is their own broadcast network. If you can build a reach for yourself, you’re essentially an influencer.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We were a band way before we ever did anything with Disney.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We just like making the music that we make. It makes us super, super happy.”
― Kevin Jonas
“We’re guys that like to make fun music, music that people like. And I think, for us, it’s just important to always keep your mind in the right place and always keep your heart in the place of making music that you love.”
― Kevin Jonas
“Nick is an amazing musician. He’s really focused.”
― Kevin Jonas
“’The Chronicles of Narnia’ books are great.”
― Kevin Jonas
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