Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.
It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.
When I'm on the road, museums end up being a place I go to in different cities that is always interesting. Museums and independent record stores.
We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.
Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
Personally, I'm not into 'Star Trek' or physics or comic books, but I know I might be in the minority.
I used to hold Stanley Kubrick film festivals at my house in high school. These are not cool things.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
I love music, I'm very eclectic. On my iPad I have the complete works of Ludwig van Beethoven.
I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.
I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.
I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.
I collect and read as many books about music and film as I do fiction.
I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.
My parents are big Shakespeare fans.
Being the family's literate one, my wife doesn't watch television much, preferring third-world novels, though she'll sit in now and then when I have on Jon Stewart.
Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a way that largely passes his parents, his siblings, and his sons by.
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny.
I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.
