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If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'

I grew up in a haunted house, reading Dr. Seuss.

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss.

I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of music - there's so much to discover still.

'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

I loved Woody Allen's short pieces. I was equally influenced by Woody Allen and Norman Mailer. I was very into this idea of being high-low, of being serious and intellectual but also making really broad jokes.