Drake Bell Quotations

I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves.

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

I just think it's so much more rewarding and important to go around the world and bring people together as opposed to pushing people away.

I used to go to San Diego all the time to hang out. My cousin played for the San Diego Padres, and my brother lives down there. I love going to the zoo and walking around Old Town.

I've been to a lot of places while touring, but I'd have to say Switzerland was my favorite.

I really like Caravan Palace's electro swing stuff. They incorporate the electronic, but when you see them live, they're all on stage playing live music. They're all playing their instruments. They drop these beats with the DJs that are so incredible.

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.

I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.

The fans are especially amazing in Mexico. You look out your window, and there are fans that stay out there all night long.

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 started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.

A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren't alive, unfortunately.

A lot of who I am is in the work I do.

Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.

Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.

I don't eat sushi, but I eat cooked meat.

I don't want just 25-year-old girls watching my show. I want Grandma, Grandpa and Mom and Dad and the kids. I just want everyone to hear good music.

I fell in love with '50s hot-rod, pinup-girl culture.

I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.

I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.

I have a dog named Steve that lives at the studio.

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 like to get up early in the morning and run.

I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano.

I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.

Leslie Nielsen was my favorite growing up; getting to work with him was amazing.

My favorite sport is baseball; my cousin is pitcher Heath Bell.

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.

Music and acting kind of all goes together.

My fans are all pretty cool, you know; I've never really seen anybody fighting on Twitter, no death threats, no harsh language, no gay slurs, nothing like that.

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.

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.

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 grew up on old music. I'm just not really into the new stuff.

I'm all about unity and loving your neighbor... If somebody told me when I was growing up that the music I was listening to was stupid, and I listened to them, I wouldn't be where I am today.

I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

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 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.

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 would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.

Paul McCartney would be the end all, be all. To work with Paul would just be amazing.

My character on Drake & Josh is way too cool to be me. He's much smoother with the ladies.

Most of the people who watch the show gravitate toward the music, ... A lot of the kids dig that.

When I was 5, I did a commercial for Whirlpool sitting on a tree stump eating a popsicle that dripped all over my clothes.

When we won for best kids show, we wanted to go out and celebrate.

The live audience, just getting an instant reaction off of an audience is the best part[of the show]. Being in the studio and working on your songs and listening to them back and doing all that - it's a lot of fun, but having that instant reaction and being able to work and vibe with an audience is the best part.

It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda said hey, you wanna be an actor and I said sure.

I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.

Play every day. I don't know. I'm not sure what kind of advice I would give. You just have to do it every second that you can.

I like all like classic rock bands like The Beatles and The Who and stuff and Led Zeppelin so I kinda dress like that. Kinda retro I guess. Well not retro but, like tight. I don't know. Like just jeans and shirts. I don't know. Kinda rock and roll I guess.

A normal day in my life - well right now it's kinda just like hang out and be lazy .I'm just kinda like enjoying my break, basic, what everybody does. Hang out in my pajamas and eat cereal and watch cartoons.

I would like to work with Paul McCartney in the future. Or Brian Seltzer. But I guess like, like I said - I'm into The Strokes, like Ben Folds, Eliot Smith, the Beatles are my favorite, the Beach Boys, Queen.

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

I'm horrible at these things, 'cause I'm a horrible date.What's a good date? A nice dinner and a movie? I don't know. What are dates? An amusement park? What am I supposed to say? Hmm. I have no idea.

I don't really have a certain format that I go by.

Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do.

Most people spend their lives on their endeavors, and I get the privilege to have been doing this since I was five. I get to go play and have fun and entertain people.

I think my favorite thing is when people send me Instagram photos of people's yearbooks, and one guy will put "Are you calling me a liar?," and his friend will have "I ain't calling you a truther." And those are people's actual yearbook quotes. That's so amazing.

We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.

There's just a lot of really young, entitled people. I don't think a lot of these young people have to work very hard. They're found on YouTube and, boom, thrown into the studio, so they think they can get anything they want.

I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by playing drums.

I've been able to work with some incredible voice talent, most of whom I grew up hearing in my favorite cartoons.

Rufus Wainwright is my go-to for any kind of emotion. He's got songs for all of it.

'Drake and Josh' was strictly nine to five. We'd go in and know what we were doing, and 'Superhero Movie' was just nuttiness every day because there's a joke every ten seconds.

That's why you have the long hours in the studio and on sets: so you can come out and see the fans. To see the smiles you put on people's faces.

They're wholesome, and really actually funny. It's not like you turn it on and it's kids throwing pies in each other's faces. There's actually validity to the work.

Everyone is going to love it. It's not just a kid movie. It has romance between Helen and Frank, comedy from the younger kids, a love triangle between the teenagers. It's very broad.

The best place for me is in my car, listening to my stereo. 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!

Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

I loved John Lennon. I read interviews, and whatever he said he liked, I would go and listen to them. That is what I want to do with my fans.

I love 'Drake and Josh.' It's supposed to have a demographic of ages 9-14, but really, it's 9-84. There is no demographic.

I'm very close with my fans. I'm very involved with my fans, so I've seen the influence that I can have on a child or on the mind of somebody.

I'm nervous the first few songs, and then I'm like, 'I got this audience. I'm ready!'

I'm on stage where Rivers Cuomo from Weezer was standing? It's kind of a mind trip.

I had the opportunity to do a movie with Roger Daltrey of The Who. In the movie, I played a guitar student. Since I had to learn how to play somewhat for the movie, I was introduced to the guitar.

If you look back to a picture of me when I was 12 years old, you will probably see me in a leather jacket trying to look like Elvis!

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 really, really love what I do, and there's nothing I love more than getting on stage and playing for an audience or working on a part, getting in front of the camera, and meeting all the cool people I get to meet, and going all the cool places I get to go.

I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.

If I catch one of my fans saying something improper, a gay slur or any derogatory term, I instantly tweet directly at them and say, 'This isn't how we do it.'

I can remember just learning to walk and trying to dance like Elvis and sing like Elvis, so I was very, very passionate about music at a very young age.