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Font color=White> Rock: Jim Morrison is a heavy influence on me, has been since I first started reading his work - and became perhaps, moreso, when I began listening to his music years later. Melissa Ethridge and Kurt Cobain also had heavy influences in what I enjoy in artists - Cobain, all of his stuff - Ethridge, when she was still rocking the stage. And Jakob Dylan/The Wallflowers, since their inception in 1992, to their reincarnation of 1996. Tom Petty - the Storytellers of Rock. Hurst/Econoline Crush, Moist, Duncan Sheik, Jamie Walters, Aerosmith, Metallica, STP, Son Volt (one of my current favorites, with their CD "Trace"), Bon Jovi/Jon Bon Jovi/Jon Bon Jovi, 3rd Eye Blind, Blues Traveler, Pink Floyd, Clapton/Cream, Bush, NIN, The Killers, Counting Crows, Gin Blossoms, Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, Damien Rice, Moist, Matchbox 20, Dido Armstrong, The Goo Goo Dolls, Garbage (What are you listening to? Garbage. "That's right". oog.), Sheryl Crow, The Cure and quite a few others. Country gave me Johnny Cash, who I identified with instantly, but has also stretched out into The Dixie Chicks, The Wreckers, Brad Paisley, Josh Turner, etc., etc.

I think Sarah McLachlan has one of the best voices I have ever heard - and music has a stronghold on my life that just seems to never let up.