Am I going about things the wrong way?

there's this really nice, funny, cool, and, erm, beautiful guy in my spanish class. he sits behind me and we talk a lot about random stuff like music and what we did yesterday and other things like that. i've really started to like him, but i have no idea how to get him to like me. at the moment, i'm focusing on our friendship, but i don't know if this is the wrong way to get him to like me. i also don't know for sure if he has a girlfriend or not, but if he does, i'd probably just give up trying to make him like me. it would be pointless, of course.

also, i don't know if i should hint around to him that i like him or keep quiet about it. if i hinted around, he might be creeped out or something and not like me at all (if he already does, which i strongly doubt), but if i kept quiet about it and he did like me (which, again, i strongly doubt), he would never know i did too and we wouldn't be together and blahblahblah.

any help/advice with this, would be greatly appreciated :)

also, you get full credit/points/whatever if you can name what song i referenced in the question and the band who made it ;)