Hey, I was as smooth as a baby's bottom at eighteen, and now I get a full beard in three days if I don't shave. He might surprise you with a goatee someday.

[Well, if they spend enough days apart for a goatee to grow.]

Idol isn't the word I would use. That would imply that I looked up to him, and that wasn't quite how it was.

['Burned with envy' would be a more appropriate description to use.]