Nick Jonas

The owners of the home were kind enough to let us rent it from them for basically nothing while we were in this transitional period.

And around the same time, while we're on tour doing a school tour, basically we would show up at 8 a.m., load in our own gear, and play a 30-minute assembly, basically.

And then there was an anti-drug message at the end of it that our uncle Josh, who was our tour manager, would give.

You know, around this time, I'm starting to lose weight.

I'm...

I'm thirsty all the time.

I'm using the bathroom all the time and kind of just thought it was a growth spurt or that I was just going through puberty.

Obviously, it wasn't that.

It was a diabetes diagnosis.

So it all kind of collided at the same time and looked up and life just looked very different.

Yeah.

So it took a lot of faith and even questioning faith at that time, going from the safety net of the church to all of a sudden being sort of betrayed by them and having to redefine relationship with God while going through some of your toughest moments.

It's weird, weird time.

But we came out of it okay.

And that phone call from Disney kind of changed our life.

Writing music.

Our parents got us, say, a V-drum kit, which is an electronic drum kit, where you could hook up your iPod and play along to the track.

So it was kind of the way that I learned how to play drums.

And in that basement that that drum set was kept in, we also had a little guitar rig and a keyboard

And, you know, I was growing up going through life stuff, right?