When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.
A lot of people in my class were one to two years older than me.
Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that just stuck.
I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.
I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.
I was in a group called the Yacht Club, and they were all older than me. I was kind of the baby.
I used to play with all the older guys. I never played with, really, my age group when I was younger.
As a kid, my parents told me I always seemed to play football with older people. As a boy, I always trained in the age group above, and even kicking about on the street, I'd play with the bigger ones.
I feel so confident and awesome and sexy when I'm with people who are older than me, and I've always been surrounded by people who are older than me. But to be vital in comedy, you have to exist in a world that's dominated by young people.
