"Well number one — and we have to count it as one or else it’s take up my whole list — is The Lord of the Rings. That’s pretty self-explanatory. I read the books when I was a kid and Peter Jackson just created this incredible world and environment that you get caught up in. It’s amazing."

"This is an amazing collection of black and white photos of life on the city streets in the summer that really inspired me when opening Streetbird Rotisserie in Harlem. The block party is something so quintessential that I love about living in NYC, and this book gets the vibe, the people, and the community just so."

"You know which one is one of my favorites? Betty Blue. Oh, if you’ve not seen it — you have to see it. It’s amazing. What a great film. It’s not without its faults, which sort of parallels life, you know — you feel like you’re living with these people for two-and-a-half hours. It’s really great. Loved it."

"A pure expression of what it’s like to visit an amazing city by yourself. It captures the joy and romance but also the ephemerality and loneliness of travel. This is also the movie that made me love Katharine Hepburn, after years of thinking of her as hammy and unfunny in the context of her screwball comedies."

"I think I discovered this album around ten years ago. Jim O'Rourke might have turned me on to it. Catherine Ribeiro's voice is so amazing and the music sounds so - I hate to use the word organic, but I just kind of relate it to the music as well on this record. She is definitely an influence on me."

"Wilco is the best modern band out there. The first album I heard was Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and that just sort of blew my mind. Me and my brother like to think that we’re sort of in the same vein as Wilco, music-wise. I just think Wilco is the most inventive, amazing band of our generation."