Well, yeah. I think some of Ireland's rich, artistic, creative tradition comes from my childhood
friends, and there's no doubt about that. Without my friends, I think I'd be probably lost.
Well I think when you're, you know we always shared, we took our sense of humor very
seriously. It was very important to us. That developed together; our personalities developed
together. We talked a lot, we thought a lot, we discussed things and we grew up and our minds
developed together. So how does it influence me? I think it completely influences me. I think, to
some extent, we are all a product of our experiences. And in the bad ways, of course, I think
we've to break that. When we become models, we're responsible for everything we do, but there
is no doubt about the fact that my friends have influence me. Of course they have.
It was a name we put to the understanding that we had with each other. It was the place where I
think our way of thinking came from, our language came from, our names came from. I guess I
see Lypton Village is the word that we put on that. It could have been any word and it happened
to be that. I think that's how I say it.
I was given, when I was a child, my best friend, I wanted to be a painter and he gave me a
painter’s name, Guggi. And he wanted to be a singer and I gave him a singer’s name, Bono and
that's where those two names came from. We were very interested in this thing about finding a
word that sounded, in the way it sounded, it also described the way somebody looked as well as
their vibe and I think the word Guggi, maybe, was pretty accurate.