A biography for Drake Bellhasn’t been written yet.
“I hope fans will go back and listen to the Beatles and the Beach Boys or Led Zeppelin, or put on 'Tommy' and let them experience like I did that moment when 'Pinball Wizard' comes on.”
“I fell in love with '50s hot-rod, pinup-girl culture.”
“Leslie Nielsen was my favorite growing up; getting to work with him was amazing.”
“I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.”
“I am 'Mr. Karaoke Guy' in the car completely. I just go with it and don't care what anyone else thinks - I'm singing, man!”
“I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.”
“I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.”
“My favorite sport is baseball; my cousin is pitcher Heath Bell.”
“I hope my fans will grow with me. I want to be like Michael Jackson: 5-year-olds love his music, and 75-year-olds love his music.”
“I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.”
“When I was 5, I did a commercial for Whirlpool sitting on a tree stump eating a popsicle that dripped all over my clothes.”
“I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.”
“Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.”
“I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.”
“My mom was a championship pool player.”
“When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.”
“I always loved comic books when I was growing up, and Spider-Man was definitely a character I gravitated towards because I loved the story of an average teenager having super powers.”
“With a good melody... music gets me through everything.”
“A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren't alive, unfortunately.”
“I was scrolling through my Twitter feed one day, and somebody had tweeted me a picture of Justin Bieber that had been Photoshopped with makeup or something. And I thought it was funny and so I hit retweet - I just retweeted a tweet - and all of a sudden, the remarks were coming in.”