- So, let's talk about it.
I know people probably ask you all the time,
but I love Priyanka and you know this.
- Me too! - She is so cool,
but I didn't realize like how fast, well--
Okay, what was your first date like, first of all.
- Well it's kind of a long story, but I'll tell it.
- Synopsis. - So basically, we were told
by a mutual friend that we should meet.
And he said, "I'll connect you guys".
He never did, and I got impatient,
so I direct messaged her on Twitter.
- Get it. - And she responded.
We talked you know, back and forth about a year on text,
and then we finally met in person.
It wasn't really a date.
We just met in person and went for a drink.
And then about a year later,
we went on our first official date to the Hollywood Bowl
to go see the Beauty And The Beast Live.
- That's adorable!
- You know, just recently we played there
to kind of end the first leg of the tour,
and she sat two boxes away from where we sat
on our first date, it was very cool.
- That's so cool!
So what I didn't know though was that y'all got,
y'all got married pretty quickly.
I heard people kept going, "Whoa, that's moving fast."
First of all, stay in your lane, okay?
- Exactly, mind your own business.
- So mind yourself.
- No I think, you know, when you know, you know.
And we heard that pretty much from everybody
once we told people we were engaged.
But, you know, it's it was kind of magical.
You know, just within eight, nine weeks,
we were talking about marriage.
And within 10, 11 weeks, we were engaged.
- [Kelly] That's amazing!
- And we got married in December last year,
so our one year is coming up on the first.
- That's so exciting.
Congratulations, it's really very cool.
To find someone you love like that to be your best friend,
it's so cool.
So, I heard when I was doing the,
I was reading the pre-interview for this,
I had no idea that y'all opened for me in 2005.
'Cause I feel like I just got really cool.
- No, so, no one cared about us in 2005,
we were just coming up and basically, to get other gigs,
we listed the other acts that we'd opened up for.
But that really just meant that we were on the outside stage
in the parking lot while you were playing for 40,000 people.
- Still the same.
- But you helped us get a lot of gigs after that,
so thank you. - Oh my gosh!
- We owe you 20%.
(everybody laughing)
- So, now you're on tour for real.
So tell us about Happiness Begins.
- Yeah, so this has been quite the crazy year
for the family.
You know, just a year ago right now,
we had just started recording music together again.
And you know, looking a year later, we're finishing up
the first leg of a crazy tour,
and also the album "Happiness Begins",
but it all started with a documentary,
which we call "Chasing Happiness",
which was kinda just to tell our story of our childhood.
You know, our father was a pastor,
we had a pretty crazy journey in the church,
and then into our music career together.
We had really no intention
of getting the band back together.
But after filming for a little while,
and kind of healing some of those family wounds
that were there from our years of working together
in the past, we were able to look at this with a fresh view
and really kind of all in different ways,
find our happiness.
And so we went for it, and it's been an unforgettable year.
It's been really amazing. - That's really cool,
like not only, I mean, I get like, the fans are excited
about it, but it's way more cool for you and your family.
Like, that's a hard thing to like,
I mean, that's my road family over there,
and it's hard to all be together all the time,
especially when you're related. I can't even imagine that.
That's really cool that that's ended--
- It's really special to share that with family.
- If the documentary, would you have released it
if y'all wouldn't have gotten together?
- I think so, yeah I think, you know,
we had spent money making it, so we probably would have.
(everybody laughing)
And I think it was an important story to tell,
you know, and that was kind of, I think,
the thing that was to us, so special about it is that
there was no intention to come back
and do this again from the beginning,
but when we actually just sat down and did the hard work
that, you know, most families have to do.
We all go through things with people we love,
and whether it's the family you choose or blood.
- It's usually the ones you love the most, yeah.
- Yeah, you gotta go through it.
And we did, and we look at the other side
and we're all kind of in the best place in our lives.
- I know you're all married now, like yeah.
- All married, my brother's got two kids,
and it's a beautiful time, and to have been able
to go through that with your family is, I think we're all
really grateful and aware of how unique it is, and so--
- So cool, I will say, you have like,
the most famous family ever. (laughing)
I was like, looking at everyone listed in your family tree,
I'm like, "Okay, well, those kids are gonna be like,
"they're not gonna know what normal is."
- They're gonna have some cool aunts and cool uncles.
- It's amazing, y'all should have, no you shouldn't,
but you should have a reality show, I just wanna see it.
I just wanna, I wanna watch the dynamic
of all those famous people in one family, that's insane.
- I think the band might break up again
if we had a reality show.
(everybody laughing)
- If cameras were there all the time, no you won't.
You have to be on point.
Do you have a favorite song on the tour?
- I have a few that I love.
It's like picking a favorite kid, I guess, I can't pick one.
- Yeah, they're different vibes.
- I'm so connected to my songwriting too,
that it's hard to pick one.
But we actually have just come out with
a Christmas song, - I love Christmas.
- Which has been a dream of ours forever, me too.
It's my favorite.
- Wait, y'all don't have a Christmas album?
- We have an album-- - What's wrong with you?
- Back in the day with Disney,
we did a few just songs here and there,
but this is like our first real swing at doing
a Christmas song with the same group of writers,
producers that we work with in the rest of our music.
- Oh my gosh, do a whole album, I love Christmas music.
- As long as you come on and do it with us.
- I will sing with you!
- You already sang with John-- - Unless you're just joking.
(audience cheering and applauding)
I did sing with John.
I love Christmas music. - Me too.
- I think it's so cool 'cause you can get away with like
that cheesy good feeling. - When do you start playing
Christmas music? - I actually started,
and my staff will tell you, I actually started like
two months ago, 'cause I was wrapping presents in Montana,
we have a ranch there, and I was
wrapping Christmas presents.
- So two months ago, so like September?
- Yeah. - Wow.
- Never too early!
(everybody laughing)
Because I was wrapping Christmas presents!
November, December are really busy,
so I was having to do everything before hand, and so--
- You did say that you were wrapping Christmas presents--
- I was wrapping Christmas presents, yes.
- That's impressive. - I do that.
- I start shopping three days before.
(audience laughing)
- Yeah, so does my husband, which is why I do it.
- Yeah, yeah. (Kelly laughs)