The Jonas Brothers stopped by the Z100 studios in New York City to talk with JJ about ‘Married To Jonas’, their next album, playing Radio City, sibling fighting, borrowing Alicia Keys’ piano, acquiring the rights to all of their old music, and more.

On meeting Danielle’s family for the first time, Kevin said, “It was cool. I come from a big family as well and most of them are Italians as well, but this was like New Jersey Italian in a great way. It was really cool to meet everybody the first time. It was a little intimidating, but it worked out for the better.”

Talking about the initial reaction from Kevin’s brothers on his engagement, Joe said, “I’m pretty sure we listened to him, but at the same time we’re like take your time, because we want to make sure this is the right girl.”

Nick added, “We had the real conversation that all families have. I think all brothers that are close and best friends, whatever setting you’re in, it’s important to ask the serious questions. Once he answered them with real heart and sort of understanding of the situation, we’re like great and it all worked out in the timing. There definitely were the questions.”

Quizzed about the baby talk at the dinner table seen on the E! show, Kevin said, “It’s funny. We have conversations all the time that we’re nonchalant about I guess, because we’re family and we just talk about it and it’s just the way it is. At the same time, we were gonna save those conversations for us, but look, that’s what family does. They just get into each other’s business.”

On their Kevin Sr. looking so serious on TV, Joe said, “Our dad really doesn’t like to be on camera, so that’s probably why. He wants to be the guy always behind the camera.”

Discussing the brothers’ collaborative songwriting process, Nick said, “The funniest part about our process that you see on the show, I think until you watch it back you don’t even realize that it happens, it’s that you just sort of say these crazy sounds. It just comes out. You’re singing a line, we’re writing a song called ‘Meet You in Paris’, and it just sounds crazy, and outside of it I think you’d have no idea what we’re doing and we’re speaking a different language.”

As for whether there were arguments while songwriting, Nick said, “We used to get really mad at each other at the beginning of our songwriting career.” Joe conceded sometimes their arguments got physical early on. “We used to like, we’re brothers, so we used to wrestle and fight, but that was when we were a lot younger.” Nick then talked about how Kevin flipped him over his shoulder one time and broke his collar bone.

Discussing their move from Hollywood Records to go on their own, Joe said, “I think more relieving and exciting at the same time. For us, we’re our own bosses for the first time in a long time.” Nick added, “There’s also a real season of change and growth for us. I think as people alone but also our music and where we want to go with that. Hollywood was a good home for us for a while, but now it’s time for us to take it in our own hands and do all we can do with it.”

Talking about what to expect from the new album, Nick said, “I think that putting sort of a description by using other artists is difficult because right now it’s sort of a mesh of a lot of different things, but I think the core of it is our same songwriting style from years past in the sense that it is us creating it and it’s our heart that’s within it. I think we’re being influenced by some current artists, which is cool for us, because usually it’s been people from the past that have played an influence. We felt that it was important to really dive into what’s happening now. I think people like Frank Ocean are an inspiration. People like Gotye. Obviously Adele’s last record, capturing artistry and great music that people can connect with is crucial these days. I think that if we had to find a place to put it, it would be in that zone, but also much that we really like and enjoy. That’s the goal, to make music we want to listen to.”

Watch it via Z10.com below.

The Jonas Brothers announced that they will be reuniting for one concert at Radio City Music Hall. Kevin Jonas, joined by his wife Danielle, and later by Nick and Joe, chatted with ‘On Air with Ryan Seacrest’ about the concert, Kevin and Danielle’s reality show ‘Married To Jonas’, Kevin not liking bananas, Aly Raisman, Nick being a possible ‘American Idol’ judge, a new Jonas Brothers album and more.

On deciding to let cameras inside their relationship, Kevin said:

When we got the call and we were talking a little bit, even with you as well, we kind of opened ourselves up to it. We had the thought basically we had to consider something like this greatly. We can’t just jump into it saying, ‘Yeah, it’ll be fun.’ You really need to get in there and say alright, cool, I’m gonna be open and I’ve got to learn how to be honest, at the same time be human as well. Not putting it on for the camera. Then we started having fun. We did the pilot and we really enjoyed it. One thing that really blew us away was how much we learned about each other. The cameras were like a therapist in the room, always. It’s kind of like you have to know you’re gonna see this, and you’re gonna have to talk about everything that you’re doing. What some in relationships or in marriages sweep under the rug, you kind of pick your battles. With this, every battle is being picked.

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Joe Jonas spoke with MTV News about the status of the Jonas Brothers new album, their first since parting ways with Hollywood Records earlier this year.

“It’s an exciting chapter for us. It’s almost as if starting over,” the 22-year-old said. “For us, we’ve been in this position once before, years ago, and then great things happened really fast for us. So now, as we’re all adults and it’s been like two years since we worked together - we’ve all done individual projects, solo projects, movie projects - now it’s kind of like, ‘We’re here together. Let’s create.'”

The trio are currently doing recording sessions for the ‘Lines, Vines and Trying Times’ follow-up.

Watch a clip of Joe discussing the new album below.

Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers spoke with Popstar! about the pros and cons of being famous. “I think it’s something that you kind of get used to after awhile,” Joe said. “It does sometimes shock us after we’re on break for awhile and doing our own thing and come back and there’s fans outside of a hotel or something.” Watch the comments via YouTube below.