Nick Jonas

Finding your own identity amidst a group is always tough.

That's not unique to us.

That's any siblings, right?

Go through something like that where they've got to find their own identity.

And even...

you know, their place in the family.

For each of us, being sort of labeled a thing, because it's the easiest way for people to sort of digest a new band is to say, well, he's the this one, he's the this one.

And it got tiring, you know, because I'm sort of inherently like a

a pretty reserved person.

Um, I think the people that know me best would say that I'm actually quite outgoing once you get to know me.

But, but I think that I sort of created a, uh, a label for myself because I was being told that I was the shy one or, um, you know, whatever it was at that time or the, the sort of creative moody one.

And he's the least labels like they do stick with you as, as you get older and, and,

So I think when I got into my sort of late teens and early 20s, especially as I started to explore sort of my identity as a solo artist and as an adult, I tried to shed that.

And when I look back on it now as a person in my 30s, I can kind of like laugh at the stages of life and how those early labels and trying to find my identity amidst this group, you know, really shaped who I became.

the ways in which it was limiting were that you start to sort of subscribe to it as well.

And then it becomes a part of your self-talk.

I was not regularly in therapy in my teens.

I think because our dad was from a ministry background, there was sort of a taboo around it.

We would often refer to sort of therapy as more like a counseling session with a person in the church.

Throughout those years,