Nick Jonas

And, and

I had to sort of relearn who I was if you took this thing away.

It'd be like taking my singing voice away.

Who am I?

What do I do?

And it was just a really tough season in my life.

And everything I did after that, I was just incredibly critical of myself.

And then I started to do that thing where you make the joke before others can.

You think it's already in the room before you arrive.

And no one was thinking about it.

And that's been true a number of times in my life where I feel like something's happened that didn't go the way I wanted it to.

and that everyone's talking about it.

And so there's that wrestle of like, am I just a narcissist thinking that this is as important to everybody else?

There's even more judgment.

And maybe, yeah.

And then it's just a cyclical thing.

And so the gut punch lyrics...

were really important to me because it's the first time I've been able to say this thing that I've felt for a long time.

And it wasn't until we got to the bridge where I wrote that line.

My co-writers in the song are amazing and really allowed for me to be this honest.