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"It's kind of a joke that I have to say that my band performs live and really plays their instruments."
"I'm sorry, I think Justin Timberlake is great, but when I put on his new record, I don't feel the same as the first time I heard Tommy by the Who."
First album, Telegraph
"My father wasn't a music guy; he just had the oldies station on. I fell in love with Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Ray Charles. When Ray Charles did a song, it just ripped my heart out."
Second album, It's Only Time
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"That song is truly my creation. When you act, you're saying someone else's words. Directing is the same thing - it's someone else's story. But when I'm onstage, it's just me and my guitar and my music. I can't tell you how rewarding it is to sing a song that you wrote and then hear the audience applaud."
"I got into buying vinyl albums a long time ago. I remember buying my first Beatles album and being blown away. But that's all I knew about the Beatles was that one album. Then I bought more of them, and, man, they did 400 songs in only a few years together! Wow! I'm the biggest Beatles fan you could possibly find."
"I saw Paul McCartney the last two times he played Los Angeles. I'm a ridiculously freakish fan of him. I was in the seventh row. He was right in front of me! The whole time, I was like a 13-year-old girl seeing the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl in 1964. I was crying. I couldn't handle it. The people around me were wondering, 'What's wrong with this young guy?' I told my friend, 'Dude, I don't know if I can make it through this show. Paul McCartney is standing in front of me, and he's singing Till There Was You. That's how much it affected me."
"Nextfest surprised me," says Bell. "I had a song, 'Makes Me Happy,' in 'Big Shrimp,' and at the start of the tour it'd get the normal response. But by the time 'Big Shrimp' aired, people went crazy for it."
"I just want to be happy and make other people happy. That's why I play music and act."
“Everybody thinks I have it made, but the truth is, I’m so far from where I want to be. Nobody wants to hear that, though. The big TV star crying the blues─would you want to listen to that? I know I wouldn't.”
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