Joe Jonas says being in DNCE made him "chill out"

Speaking to NME magazine, Joe said: "Sometimes it's a hard mentality to break. But I think it even goes back further than that - to working with Disney for years and, like, feeling like you're a role model when you didn't ask to be one. But you're so young and you're put in that box. It was similar when I was being looked at as a heartthrob.

"It was freeing for me, actually, to be with these guys. Because we could let loose and just have fun. I used to feel like I had to be perfect and would beat myself if little things went wrong in the live show - if I flubbed a lyric or someone messed up a solo.

"Now, we laugh about it and just roll with the punches. If I forget a lyric now, the front row will sing it for me, you know? Being in this band has definitely made me chill out."

Joe - who got engaged to 22-year-old 'Game of Thrones' actress Sophie Tuner last October - also admitted he didn't expect the bands first single 'Cake By The Ocean' to do so well, because the song's title had been initially met with criticism.

He added: "Honestly, I should have screen-shotted some of the comments on Instagram when we first posted a teaser saying 'new band, coming soon, debut single 'Cake By The Ocean'. People were like, 'What the f**k is this? Is this really the name of the song?' It took about a month before people were like, 'Oh, you guys are serious. This isn't a joke. This isn't some SNL skit. You guys are actually a real band.'

"We did a lot of gigs in New York City. We took over a bar there and were supposed to play a showcase once a night. We ended up playing like eight or nine times a night. It became a party, and we got a spillover from the nightclub next door. We were playing to a really fun, entertaining crowd with a lot of club kids, and that's kind of how our fanbase started."